Nuon Chea
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 8, 2014
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The highest panel of judges on the joint United Nations-Cambodian government tribunal on crimes of the Khmer Rouge regime have cleared the way for a second trial of two top leaders of the Communist movement that devastated the…
- Categories: Asia, International Justice
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- Clothilde Le Coz
- • June 11, 2014
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Until now, sexual violence against ethnic minorities during the Khmer Rouge era in this country went largely ignored. Now for the first time, the Cambodian Defenders Project, one of the oldest legal aid organizations here,…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, International Justice, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 2, 2014
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The tangled process of bringing even partial accounting and sentencing to a close in a United Nations-Cambodian joint tribunal judging the leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime that decimated the country’s population in the late 1970s and destroyed all…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 20, 2013
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Almost four decades after the ideologically crazed communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge fought its way to power in Cambodia, vowing to create a new society but instead leaving up to two million people dead in its wake,…
- Categories: Asia, International Justice
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 14, 2013
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Ieng Sary, a co-founder and the third-highest official in the murderous Khmer Rouge movement that decimated Cambodian society in the 1970s, died in a Phnom Penh hospital on March 14 at age 87. The death of Ieng Sary, who…
- Categories: Asia, International Justice