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Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies at 93

By SOPHENG CHEANGAugust 5, 2019 GMT

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, the country's U...

Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms

By SOPHENG CHEANGNovember 16, 2018 GMT

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia in the 1970s, when their reign of terror was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1...

The Latest: Last Khmer Rouge leaders get 2nd life sentence

November 16, 2018 GMT

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Latest on the tribunal judging Khmer Rouge responsibility (all times local):...