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

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 ...

The ultra-Maoist movement – led by “Brother No 1” Pol Pot – wiped out about 2 million people through ... It was made at the request of influential former leader Hun Sen who in May claimed that some ...

The draft law, which imposes penalties on those who deny these crimes, was approved during a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime ...

Cambodia’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out ...

entered Phnom Penh and toppled Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in 1979. Since then, the country has remained under the iron-fisted rule of Hun Sen and now his son, Hun Manet, with little room for ...

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

The ultra-Maoist movement -- led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot -- wiped out about two ... It was made at the request of influential former leader Hun Sen who in May claimed that some politicians ...

Under the leadership of the late Pol Pot, the group stayed in power until ... Khmer Rouge atrocities after then-Prime Minister Hun Sen called for the measure. He claimed that a leading opposition ...