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The UN chief administrator of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal said Saturday that the trials of former Khmer Rouge members must begin as soon as possible if they are to happen while the former members...

Officials from the joint UN-Cambodia Khmer Rouge Genocide Tribunal being set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders said Thursday that the first trials should begin in 2007. Though no...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Craig Etcheson, author of After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide (2005) and a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, says the time has come for the United States...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday said that criminal defamation charges against four critics would be dropped after he received letters from the four apologizing for the incident. Hun Sen faced increasing international...

Cambodia and the United Nations moved closer to beginning genocide trials for Khmer Rouge leaders with an announcement Friday that the UN-backed tribunal will begin setting up offices next month. A list of Cambodian and international candidates to serve...

The Cambodian Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the appeal of a reporter found guilty of defaming Cambodia's foreign minister by suggesting he was involved in prisoners' deaths during the brutal Khmer Rouge reign. Kay Kimsong and two...

Despite initial optimism, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned the international community that Cambodia , one of Asia's poorest nations, cannot afford its share of the projected costs for an international criminal tribunal targeting Khmer...

The Cambodian government announced Tuesday that it will accept Japan's offer of $11 million to fund a shortfall in the estimated budget for trying former leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime, considered responsible for...

Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has pledged $11 million to fill a funding gap for a tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide, according to Cambodian government sources. Machimura met with Cambodian Foreign...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen , a former Khmer Rouge soldier, responded to an opposition proposal Wednesday by saying that the families of the 1.7 million victims of the hardline communist Khmer Rouge regime that ruled...