They were leaders of Cambodia’s infamous Khmer Rouge, the fanatical communist movement behind a 1970s reign of terror that transformed this entire Southeast Asian nation into a ruthless slave state — a place where cities were emptied of their inhabitants, religion and schools were banned, and anyone deemed a threat was executed.

Two senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge were sentenced to life in prison on war crimes charges for their role in Cambodia’s terror period in the 1970s.

The Elimination

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has received hundreds of vitriolic letters warning him against introducing abortion with some comparing him to ruthless dictators and others warning him the blood of children will be on his hands.

Enda Kenny has been sent hundreds of letters on the abortion issue, says Juno McEnroe

Instead of demanding that TDs and senators be permitted to retain the whip and vote ‘according to conscience’, we should demand that they vote according to best available medical knowledge or practice, and according to what is right.

One of the leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime will be set free after a court in Cambodia ruled today that she was medically unfit to stand trial for genocide, a decision survivors called shocking and unjust.

The Red House

THE Khmer Rouge were not “bad people”, the regime’s highest-ranking surviving member said as Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes tribunal began hearing evidence in a long-awaited atrocities trial.

A senior Khmer Rouge leader has accused a war crimes tribunal of wanting his “head on the block”, and insisted he had no real authority during the regime’s brutal rule of Cambodia in the 1970s.

The former deputy leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, accused over the deaths of 1.7 million people, has claimed the regime was acting in the country’s best interests.

THE top surviving commanders of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime masterminded one of the “worst horrors” of the 20th century, creating a living nightmare by killing or enslaving millions of Cambodians, a UN-backed war crimes trial has heard.

Three top Khmer Rouge leaders accused of orchestrating Cambodia’s “killing fields” went on trial today before a UN-backed tribunal more than three decades after some of the 20th century’s worst atrocities.

YOUNG, vibrant, enthusiastic and rarin’ to go.

EVEN if you arrived in Cambodia knowing absolutely nothing of its recent history, it would only take a few hours before you noticed something disturbing.

The former head of state of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge has told a court trying him for genocide that he is keen to tell all he knows about the 1970s communist regime.

THE top four surviving members of the brutal Khmer Rouge went on trial yesterday before a tribunal aimed at finding justice for the estimated 1.7 million people who died in Cambodia’s “Killing Fields” of the 1970s.

Four now old and infirm members of the Khmer Rouge's ruling elite were facing a war crimes tribunal today, decades after their plans for a Communist Party utopia in Cambodia killed around 1.7 million people by execution, medical neglect, overwork and starvation.

SIR Humphrey Gilbert was the Pol Pot of his generation when it came to amassing Irish skulls, many of which ended up being used as medicine by the English aristocracy.

With claims of witness interference and bribery surrounding the trial of the Khmer Rouge leaders, justice for victims may be further away than was hoped, writes Simon Roughneen in Tik Panhao, Cambodia

A UN-BACKED tribunal sentenced the Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer to 35 years for overseeing the deaths of up to 16,000 people – the first verdict involving a senior member of the “killing fields” regime that devastated a generation of Cambodians.

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.

A UNITED Nations backed war crimes tribunal is expected to issue a decision today in the trial of the Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer and torturer – the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that created Cambodia’s killing fields.

BAKEND Temple, on a hill west of Angkor, offers spectacular views of the setting sun.

The Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of deaths at an infamous torture centre asked Cambodia’s genocide tribunal to release him today saying he had already spent 10 years in jail awaiting trial.

A SENIOR Khmer Rouge prison guard has told a war crimes tribunal he was forced to send thousands of detainees to an execution site, where they were brutally killed and their bodies thrown into mass graves.

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.

A notorious torture centre boss went before Cambodia’s genocide tribunal today for its first trial over the deaths of around 1.7 million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime more than three decades ago.

THE former Khmer Rouge foreign minister is so ill that staying in jail could kill him, his lawyers said yesterday as they argued for his release from detention at Cambodia’s UN genocide court.

DITH PRAN, whose survival of the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge was dramatised in the film The Killing Fields, died yesterday, aged 65.

A GAUNT former schoolteacher who once ran a notorious torture centre for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge made his first public courtroom appearance yesterday, evoking curiosity and anger as he stood before judges of a UN-assisted genocide tribunal.

A gaunt former schoolteacher who once ran a notorious torture centre for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge made his first public courtroom appearance today, evoking curiosity and anger as he stood before judges of a UN-assisted genocide tribunal.

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.

One of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge leaders was brought before a UN-backed genocide tribunal today.

Cambodian police detained the ex-foreign minister of the brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime and his wife and took them to a UN-backed genocide tribunal to face charges.

THE letter from Fr Con McGillicuddy (September 17) really brought the Richard Dawkins’ disciples out in force with all guns blazing across your letters’ columns over the following weeks.

Nuon Chea, the top surviving leader of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge, whose radical policies were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, was charged today with crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Police in Cambodia detained the top surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge today over his role in the notorious regime that caused the deaths of 1.7 million people in the late 1970s.

IT is with some incredulity I note that, some 30 years too late, someone is finally being brought to task for the horrific crimes committed in Cambodia during the reign of Pol Pot.

Prosecutors for an international tribunal reviewing genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s submitted a list yesterday of former top Khmer Rouge leaders they say should stand trial.

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.

SADDAM Hussein deserves to be punished for his heinous crimes, but that punishment should only be in accordance with the rule of law, including the rule of international law.