Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

He was fluent in the Cambodian language, Khmer, which he learned after arriving in the country in 1965. He began to compile stories from the Khmer Rouge killing fields. He added his own outrage ...

A French Catholic priest, he wrote a book recounting horrors committed by the Khmer Rouge that were responsible for the deaths of almost two million people.

Cambodia’s government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said today. The ultra-Maoist ...

Phnom Penh (AFP) – Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said Saturday.

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic priest whose book "Cambodia ... the Khmer Rouge began by executing high-ranking government and military officials and then moved on to killing educated ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad The draft was issued three months ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia on April 15, 1975 after five years of civil war.

The draft was issued three months ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia on April 15, 1975 after five years of civil war. Under the leadership of the late Pol Pot ...