Khmer Rouge

  • Interview

    Sep 9 2009

    Photography in the Killing Fields

    Photo Courtesy of Documentation Center of Cambodia: Chan Kim Srun (Saang) a ...

    By Stan Alcorn

    Photojournalist Nic Dunlop tracked down a notorious Khmer Rouge prison warden, now on trial for crimes against humanity. Dunlop speaks to the Dart Center about the limits of journalism and justice.

  • Behind the Story

    Sep 9 2009

    Reckoning with the Khmer Rouge

    Photo: Tang Chhin Sothy / AFP / Getty Images: A Cambodian girl looks at sku ...

    By Ung Bun Y

    Journalists covering the Khmer Rouge tribunal are learning how to confront painful and seldom discussed memories of the atrocities that devastated all of Cambodia.

  • Blog Post

    Apr 22 2009 11:59 AM

    Khmer Rouge Trial Reawakens Old Horrors

    By Trina McLellan

    Three decades after the end of the deadly Khmer Rouge regime, the first of Cambodia's genocide trials has finally begun. More »

  • Special Report

    Apr 30 2005

    Cambodian Shadows

    By Penny Cockerell

    PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—At the entrance of Choeung Ek, the most visited of the “killing fields” here, several shiny-eyed children greet tourists and quickly engage them in a counting game in both Khmer (the Cambodian language) and English. They laugh, ask the strangers their names, where they're from. They skip around and say, in unison, "1-2-3-smile!"

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