Read more Khmer Rouge stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/7505/khmer-rouge.html2010 - Newseren-usNewser Feed Generator2010-03-11T11:42:43http://www.newser.com/story/78772/khmer-rouge-murdered-star-of-killing-fields.htmlThe LAPD and FBI call the 1996 murder of actor Haing Ngor a closed case of gang violence, but many Cambodians and Cambodian-Americans remain convinced that Pol Pot ordered a hit on the Oscar winner—and recent testimony at a UN tribunal on the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime has boosted...http://www.newser.com/story/78772/khmer-rouge-murdered-star-of-killing-fields.html2010-01-21T11:00:00http://www.newser.com/story/66718/khmer-rouge-chief-asks-for-harshest-punishment.htmlThe former head of the Khmer Rouge's main torture center asked the Cambodian people today to give him "the harshest punishment." Kaing Guek Eav, alias "Duch," who headed the notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, made the statement during his UN genocide trial, after a widow wept before the court,...http://www.newser.com/story/66718/khmer-rouge-chief-asks-for-harshest-punishment.html2009-08-12T12:02:25http://www.newser.com/story/62788/killing-fields-prosecutor-quits-slams-interference.htmlThe international prosecutor at the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal has abruptly resigned, the Independent reports. Robert Petit insisted that the resignation is due to family reasons, but he warned that the court is in danger from corruption and political meddling from Cambodian government official. Five former Khmer Rouge cadres...http://www.newser.com/story/62788/killing-fields-prosecutor-quits-slams-interference.html2009-06-25T11:30:00http://www.newser.com/story/61362/khmer-rouge-chief-admits-smashing-babies.htmlThe former chief jailer of the Khmer Rouge told a war crimes tribunal yesterday that it was standard policy to kill babies and children by smashing their heads against trees, the Independent reports. The commander, known as Duch, accepted full responsibility for his actions. He told the tribunal that he...http://www.newser.com/story/61362/khmer-rouge-chief-admits-smashing-babies.html2009-06-09T10:13:22http://www.newser.com/story/54873/khmer-rouges-duch-apologizes-for-brutal-deaths.htmlOn trial for his role in Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime, the man known as Duch made his first public apology today for overseeing the deaths of thousands at the prison he ran, the Financial Times reports. “I am responsible for the crimes committed at S-21, especially the torture and...http://www.newser.com/story/54873/khmer-rouges-duch-apologizes-for-brutal-deaths.html2009-03-31T17:03:00http://www.newser.com/story/54763/khmer-rouge-hearings-begin.htmlOne of the most feared figures of Pol Pot's fanatical regime in Cambodia has begun to tell his story on the witness stand as hearings begin in his trial, reports the Los Angeles Times . The former head of a Khmer Rough prison, Kaing Khev Iev—known as Duch—is charged...http://www.newser.com/story/54763/khmer-rouge-hearings-begin.html2009-03-30T15:33:49http://www.newser.com/story/51021/30-years-later-khmer-rouge-goes-on-trial.htmlThirty years after the end of its reign of terror, the Khmer Rouge went on trial in Cambodia for the first time today. In the dock in Phnom Penh is the commander of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, which became a symbol of the brutality of Pol Pot's murderous regime....http://www.newser.com/story/51021/30-years-later-khmer-rouge-goes-on-trial.html2009-02-17T11:44:00http://www.newser.com/story/22951/killing-fields-photog-dith-dead-at-65.htmlPhotojournalist Dith Pran, whose saga was re-created in the film The Killing Fields, has died of pancreatic cancer at 65, the New York Times reports. The Cambodian native became the Khmer Rouge's most vocal opponent after escaping in 1979, having worked in labor camps and survived on a spoonful of...http://www.newser.com/story/22951/killing-fields-photog-dith-dead-at-65.html2008-03-30T17:39:00http://www.newser.com/story/12153/khmer-rouge-jailer-has-first-day-in-court.htmlThe Cambodian “Killing Fields” tribunal heard an application for bail today from Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, the math teacher who became the chief jailer of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime. Of at least 14,000 who went into Duch’s prison, only 10 survived, Reuters reports.http://www.newser.com/story/12153/khmer-rouge-jailer-has-first-day-in-court.html2007-11-20T18:50:00