A French Catholic priest, he wrote a book recounting horrors committed by the Khmer Rouge that were responsible for the ...

Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, ...

Under the law, Khmer Rouge deniers can be charged and jailed for terms of one-five years and subjected to fines of US$2,500 ...

Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the ...

A member of the Missions Étrangères de Paris, the clergyman died in France at the age of 85. In 1975, he was among the last ...

Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

Cambodia's Cabinet has approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies ...

Under the seven-article bill, people who ‘deny the truth of the bitter past’ will be jailed between one to five years and ...

When the Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975, he was held up in the French embassy, and expelled a few days later, on 8 May, one of the last foreigners to leave Cambodia. He ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP ... atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people.

Phnom Penh (AFP) – Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said Saturday.