Khieu Samphan (right) at the UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Thursday, September 22, 2022 [Nhet Sok Heng/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia via AP] ...

Khieu Samphan, 91, is the last surviving top leader of the Khmer Rouge, whose radical policies are blamed for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people when they held power.

Former head of state for the Khmer Rouge, Khieu Samphan, in a courtroom during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Sept. 22, 2022.

Khieu Samphan, 90, was the former head of state for the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist regime that ruled Cambodia with an iron fist from 1975 to 1979 and was responsible for the deaths of an ...

The tribunal judging the criminal responsibility of former Khmer Rouge leaders for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians will issue verdicts Friday in the latest — and perhaps last ...

Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, is seen on screen during his verdict announcement at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sept. 22, 2022.

Khieu Samphan sat behind the French defense attorney as she addressed the court, listening to her arguments through headphones and wearing a mask in compliance with COVID-19 restrictions.

Khieu Samphan was an architect of the policies that killed more than one million Cambodians in the 1970's, and there were widespread fears that revenge-seekers would again track him down upon his ...

Khieu Samphan, the man who for millions was the face of the Khmer Rouge, on Friday offered an apology for the genocide carried out during his regime’s grip on power in the 1970s.His apology ...

Khieu Samphan’s 2018 conviction was largely connected to crimes committed against Vietnamese and Cham minorities in Cambodia. The only other leader convicted by the panel has been Kaing Guek ...

Khieu Samphan also cast blame on the United States for Cambodia’s problems. The U.S. heavily bombed the Cambodian countryside during the 1970-75 civil war that led to the Khmer Rouge’s seizure ...