Two Khmer Rouge leaders were jailed for life Thursday after being found guilty of crimes against humanity, the first sentences against top figures of a regime responsible for the deaths of up to two ...

Two senior leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime face a verdict Friday on genocide charges, in a ruling that experts say will bring down the curtain on the troubled UN-backed tribunal’s quest for ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The two surviving senior leaders of Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge regime launched appeals Thursday of their convictions by a U.N.-backed tribunal that sentenced them to ...

Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were top leaders in the regime, which forced residents out of the cities into the countryside where they labored under brutal conditions in giant agricultural cooperatives ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Khmer Rouge executioners threw victims to their deaths, bludgeoned them and then slit their bellies, or had medics draw so much blood that their lives drained away, prosecutors ...

The last surviving leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes Friday by an international ...

One of the top surviving leaders of Cambodia's ruthless Khmer Rouge regime on Friday denied genocide charges and rejected being labelled a "murderer" in forceful closing remarks at a lengthy UN-backed ...

They appealed their convictions, accusing the court of a string of errors and the judges of failing to remain impartial. Cambodia's UN-backed court upheld life sentences for two top former Khmer Rouge ...

PAILIN, Cambodia -- The top surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge admitted he made "mistakes" during the feared regime's rule but denied being guilty of genocide and rejected the idea that millions of ...