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Phnom Penh - Investigating judges at Cambodia's war crimes tribunal have ruled that surviving Khmer Rouge leaders can be charged with the controversial legal concept of joint criminal enterprise (JCE) when they appear as defendants, likely in 2011. I...
Prosecutors in the trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief asked a U.N.-backed Cambodian court Wednesday to sentence the man to 40 years in prison for his role in the torture and deaths of thousands.
A war crimes court in Cambodia should impose a 40-year jail sentence on "Comrade Duch," the former Khmer Rouge prison chief, a prosecutor says. Bill Smith told the United Nations-backed tribunal that Duch, 67, must be held accountable for his "unrelenting brutality," the BBC reported Wednesday.
The prison chief being tried for running a torture center for the Khmer Rouge was only following orders and did nothing that scores of colleagues didn't also do, his lawyer said Wednesday, seeking to rebut popular calls for his client to receive the maximum possible punishment.
The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer and jailer has expressed "excruciating remorse" for more than 14,000 people killed under his watch, Sky News reported.
by Ben Doherty PHNOM PENH - The Khmer Rouge's executioner-in-chief, the prison boss allegedly responsible for the torture and murder of more than 12,000 people, has made a final plea before an international court, asking that he be allowed to meet his victims' families to apologise in person. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Comrade Duch, told the Extraordinary Chamber of the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom ...
Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded a 40-year jail term for Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch, as he expressed "excruciating remorse" for the deaths of 15,000 Cambodians at his brutal torture centre.
During her childhood, Loung Ung saw violence all around her. read more »
A Thai man went on trial Tuesday for allegedly spying on Thailand's former prime minister while he was in Cambodia as a guest of the government, a case that threatens to worsen a diplomatic feud between the two nations.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A Thai man arrested for allegedly spying on Thailand's fugitive former prime minister went on trial Tuesday in Cambodia in a politically charged case that could worsen an already bitter diplomatic feud between the two nations.
A Thai man went on trial Tuesday for allegedly spying on Thailand's former prime minister while he was in Cambodia as a guest of the government, a case that threatens to worsen a diplomatic feud between the two nations.
The annual Angkor Wat event is part of a campaign to help the disabled gain acceptance in the country, which has a high concentration of people with disabilities, many of them land mine survivors.
The annual Angkor Wat event is part of a campaign to help the disabled gain acceptance in the country, which has a high concentration of people with disabilities, many of them land mine survivors.
STOCKTON - They had hung a purple drape across two walls of their front room for the ceremony. A monk sat on a cushion at the front of the room, and beside him an elderly man sang a Khmer song of mourning.
A group of 22 Uighurs who fled after ethnic rioting in western China are seeking asylum in Cambodia after using an underground network of missionaries in China that has helped North Korean refugees in the past.
A group of 22 Uighurs who fled after ethnic rioting in western China are seeking asylum in Cambodia after using an underground network of missionaries in China that has helped North Korean refugees in the past.
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