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Review the day’s key developments in defense and global affairs with SOFREP’s Evening Brief – Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
It’s been 50 years since the systematic killing of roughly 1.7 million Cambodians began under the Khmer Rouge. The genocide included the slaughter of intellectuals and artists. Music, in particular, ...
Cambodians remember Khmer Rouge victims 50 years on Cambodia held a powerful memorial on Tuesday to mark 50 years since the ...
Approximately 2,000 people attended Cambodia's annual Day of Remembrance, marking 50 years since the Khmer Rouge's reign of ...
The Salesians of Don Bosco in Cambodia have dispatched their first lay missionary volunteer from the Buddhist majority nation ...
About 2,000 people attended Cambodia’s annual Day of Remembrance Tuesday to mark half a century since Cambodia’s communist ...
I saw little children hawking bootlegged copies of my best friend’s book, First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung’s story of surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide as a little girl. I saw another ...
and tears that community members put forth after surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide. This unique and heartfelt show reflects people who desired not only to survive, but to thrive. The exhibit will ...
The Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia on April 17, just before Saigon fell, and the Pathet Lao followed, overthrowing the Kingdom of Laos on December 2, 1975. But there the dominoes stopped falling.
The event, held on April 29, at the Shangri-La Hotel in Phnom Penh, commemorated 50 years since the Khmer Rouge regime's fall, and reflected on both the horrors of the past and the enduring spirit of ...
Refugees camps started in 1975 with those fleeing the Khmer Rouge, followed in 1979 by those fleeing starvation and the advancing Vietnamese army, followed by those affected by the 1984/85 ...