“In Kampuchea, for example, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge henchmen Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea were prosecuted but not Prince Norodom Sihanouk. After World War II, the Tokyo Trials prosecuted 28 Japanese ...
The Court convicted three senior Khmer Rouge leaders: Kaing Guek Eav, alias “Comrade Duch,” head of Tuol Sleng prison (S-21) (sentenced 2010), and senior leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan ...
The ECCC was established by an agreement between the UN and the Royal Government of Cambodia, formalised in 2003. The ECCC ...
These are strange days in Thai politics. Yesterday, the Pheu Thai party, the leader of Thailand’s ruling coalition, announced that it has formally invited the Democrat Party to join the ...
In his Aug. 18 Ideas piece, “It’s time to retire the word ‘genocide,’ ” Stephen Kinzer asserts that the term “genocide” is often used inappropriately in situations where it does not ...
Three frail men, including Khieu Samphan, and one woman are charged with assorted crimes dating to a murderous reign from 1975 to 1979. Claims of interference by the Cambodian government and ...
In 1975, soon after the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, grabbed power in Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, one of the group’s leaders who was then serving as deputy prime minister, visited China and met ...
Khieu Samphan, 90, is appealing his 2018 conviction for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. He is the last surviving member of the inner circle of Pol Pot’s radical communist ...