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 ...

Former Khmer Rouge official Khieu Samphan, pictured here in 2010, had been convicted of genocide in 2018 The special tribunal in Cambodia set up to examine atrocities under the fanatical rule of ...