Under Pol Pot, the communists divided the country into sections and Hun Sen was deployed to the Eastern Region of Democratic Kampuchea, as it was called during the Khmer Rouge era, an area near ...

Family business - Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge cadre, came to power in 1985 and helped modernise a country devastated by civil war and genocide. By the time he stepped down he was Asia's longest ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rouge commander, has been outspoken in his opposition to further trials of mid-ranking cadre, claiming it could result in a return to civil war.

Hun Sen: Cambodia's strongman prime minister How two men survived a prison where 12,000 died Although there are cases against four other Khmer Rouge members, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has ...

Hun Sen joined Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge at age 18 as it fought to seize power, losing his left eye in the final battle for Phnom Penh in 1975. When a series of purges within the genocidal communist ...

From this point of view, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s increasingly autocratic behavior is worrisome. A former soldier for the Khmer Rouge, Hun Sen once opposed the establishment of the ...

As he prepares to hand over power to his son after 38 years in power, veteran Cambodian leader Hun Sen, has come a long way since his early days as a Khmer Rouge fighter. Today’s autocrats ...

The consequences of Cambodia’s deep-rooted smoking culture have been brought into sharp focus in more recent years. A DC-Cam ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen greets during a ceremony to mark the 38th anniversary of the toppling of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Phnom Penh (January 7, 2017). Credit: REUTERS/Samrang Pring Early ...

Anlong Veng was once Pol Pot's jungle headquarters and home of the very last Khmer Rouge holdouts to put ... It was erected by Prime Minister Hun Sen when this area officially rejoined the country ...