Khieu Samphan, who was convicted by a U.N.-backed tribunal of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his role as a leader of the communist Khmer Rouge when they ruled Cambodia in ...

Plus Japan props up the yen and Cambodia concludes its Khmer Rouge trials. By Amelia Nierenberg The last surviving leader of the regime that killed 1.7 million Cambodians lost his appeal on Thursday.

The last surviving senior leader of Cambodia’s radical Khmer Rouge regime has had an appeal against his conviction for genocide rejected at a war crimes tribunal in the capital Phnom Penh. The ruling ...

FILE - Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, sits in a court during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Nov. 16, 2018. Samphan, who was convicted by ...

The Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia held hearings Thursday in the genocide trial involving Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, the Associated Press reports, the first since the trial was suspended at the ...

The last surviving leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime on Thursday denied involvement in genocide and being responsible for crimes against humanity, in one of his final appearances before an ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — An international court convened in Cambodia to judge the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime that caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people in the 1970s. It ends ...

The United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal has upheld a genocide conviction against the last surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Khieu Samphan, for his role in the slaughter of Muslim Chams and ethnic ...

The defense team for the former head of state for Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime's defense team argued Tuesday that his genocide conviction should be overturned, calling into question evidence ...

Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal has rejected the appeal of a genocide conviction by the communist group’s last surviving leader Khieu Samphan. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a ...