Christopher Hudson had never been to Cambodia when he wrote The Killing Fields, his searing bestselling war story. Almost 30 years later, on his first visit, he discovers a country and a people that are moving on with optimism

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

The chief of the Khmer Rouge’s main torture centre, being tried by a UN-backed tribunal on genocide charges, today asked the Cambodian people to give him “the harshest punishment”.

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 former head of a notorious Khmer Rouge torture centre was moved to tears today when he was taken by Cambodia’s genocide tribunal to the scene of his alleged crimes.