A former Khmer Rouge chief jailer was sentenced to 19 years behind bars today after a United Nations-backed tribunal found him guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Khmer Rouge jailer with the blood of thousands of victims on his hands today admitted his guilt in public for the first time.

The long-awaited Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal today wrapped up its opening session with judges saying they still need to finalise the list of witnesses before announcing when the regime’s alleged chief torturer will take the stand.

Cambodia’s UN-backed genocide tribunal opened its doors today for the first public court appearance of a Khmer Rouge figure since the regime’s brutal reign of terror in the 1970s.

A Khmer Rouge death camp survivor now battling chronic health problems has been chosen as a recipient of a human rights award, a New York-based human rights groups said today.

Crusading actress Angelina Jolie paid her respects to victims of the Cambodian genocide with a visit to a former prison in the country's capital.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie toured a former Khmer Rouge death camp, now a genocide museum, during a surprise visit to Cambodia.

A SMALL home-made bomb exploded outside the headquarters of Cambodia’s royalist FUNCINPEC party yesterday, marring an otherwise peaceful election day in the troubled southeast Asian nation.

New evidence may lead to the prosecution of seven men implicated in Cambodia's 'killing fields' genocide.