Pheaktra said. But the discovery was only made recently after Cambodian authorities retrieved the

PHNOM PENH( AFP)-The last surviving senior Khmer Rouge leader will next week begin an appeal against his life imprisonment for his role in the genocide committed by the regime in Cambodia more than four decades ago. The Khmer Rouge, led by" Brother Number 1" Pol Pot, left some two million Cambodians dead from overwork, starvation and mass executions from 1975-79. Next Monday( Aug 16), the regime's former head of state Khieu Samphan, 90, will challenge his 2018 conviction for genocide against eth

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The last living leader from the inner circle of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime launched his courtroom appeal Monday, seeking to convince a long-running international tribunal to overturn his conviction on charges of genocide. Support our journalism.... Subscribe today....