In what was set to be its final session, the U.N.-assisted tribunal rejected an appeal by Khieu Samphan, the last surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge government that ruled Cambodia from 1975-79.

Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ever been charged. The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades ...

The impending closure of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal must be recognized as the beginning of a new chapter in Cambodia’s search for justice. In 1992, the Khmer Rouge leader insisted he had no ...

ODDAR MEANCHEY, Cambodia -- The shiny blue and white bus parked outside Hun Sen Trapeang Prasat High School in northwestern Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province contrasted sharply with the dusty brown ...

Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are ...

Watch as Chhang takes CNN's Christiane Amanpour into DC-Cam's secured vault » Today in Cambodia, a tribunal is under way to try five of the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge -- 30 years after ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia sentenced the top two surviving cadres of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime to life in jail on Thursday, delivering a semblance of justice for ...

Earlier this month a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal extended the prison sentence for a Khmer Rouge prison chief from 19 years to life. Sichan Siv, who escaped the “killing fields” of Cambodia to work ...

For more than 13 years, Norng Chan Phal has been watching as those responsible for the Khmer Rouge’s crimes stood trial. A special tribunal, established with the backing of the United Nations ...

The other day, I read a news report saying the special tribunal in Cambodia set up to examine atrocities under the rule of the Khmer Rouge had held its final hearing. The court rejected an appeal ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad The tribunal, which held a series of trials starting in 2009, found that the Khmer Rouge government committed genocide, crimes against humanity and ...