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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write. Nearly 40 years ago, hunched on the floor of the ...

LOWELL — A bill filed in the state Legislature just before the new year would mandate that history curriculums in middle and high schools in Massachusetts include sections about the fall of Saigon, ...

A specially equipped bus is driving through Cambodia to educate young students about the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime, 50 years after its rise to power. Through survivor testimonies and ...

Next week, four top leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime will be brought to trial in Cambodia for alleged crimes against humanity (known as Case 002). Journalism student Jake Schoneker reported from ...

Nearly 40 years after suffering the totalitarian nightmare of the Khmer Rouge, victims of Cambodia’s horrific history were granted a small measure of justice on Friday. An international criminal ...

Twenty-five years ago, few thought the genocidal leaders of the Khmer Rouge would ever be tried for war crimes. Pol Pot and his lieutenants lived freely in the remote northwest of Cambodia, indulged ...

United Khmer Students will dance through time in a lighthearted embrace of culture. On Sunday, the student organization will perform the play “Promise” at its 25th annual culture night. Co-director ...

April 2018 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Pol Pot, the leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, the regime that is responsible for the genocide that in four years took the lives of over 1.5 ...

A new history project helps Cambodia take a tiny step toward confronting the murderous four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. As many as 2 million people died, but the era is barely ...

It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Renee's away, I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning. Here's a tiny step forward in an effort to confront the terrible past of Cambodia. It's an effort to confront the ...