Duterte’s ICC arrest has “made Hun Sen unable to sleep,” said one exiled critic, Kim Sok, who fled the country in 2018 after serving an 18-month jail term for accusing Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s ...

Hun Sen joined Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge at age 18 as it fought to seize power, losing his left eye in the final battle for Phnom Penh in 1975. When a series of purges within the genocidal communist ...

It was subsequently advanced to August 5 -- Hun Sen's 72nd birthday. Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge cadre, came to power in 1985 and helped modernise a country devastated by civil war and genocide.

From this point of view, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s increasingly autocratic behavior is worrisome. A former soldier for the Khmer Rouge, Hun Sen once opposed the establishment of the ...

Adoption of the draft bill comes ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in mid-April. It was made at the request of influential former leader Hun Sen who in May ...

It was drawn into the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, and came under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge forces under strongman ...

With China as his main patron, Hun Sen has conveniently forgotten its role in propping up the Pol Pot regime. It took 30 years of struggle to make the tribunal happen. Now a new battle begins to ...

In 2013 Cambodia enacted a similar law against denying Khmer Rouge atrocities after then-Prime Minister Hun Sen called for the measure. He claimed that a leading opposition lawmaker suggested that ...

Hun Sen lost his eye when he was wounded by shrapnel while fighting alongside the Khmer Rouge, the day before Phnom Penh fell in April 1975. He answered the call to arms issued by then-Prince ...

Anlong Veng was once Pol Pot's jungle headquarters and home of the very last Khmer Rouge holdouts to put ... It was erected by Prime Minister Hun Sen when this area officially rejoined the country ...