As the narrative unfolds, the Khmer offer the heads of their now vanquished enemies to the king.
The soldiers nodded and smiled at each other, and one of the Thais greeted the Cambodians in Khmer.
Although he and his mother survived the Khmer Rhouge's reign, several of their relatives did not.
Phnom Penh, the legacy of the Khmer Rouge's murderous rule two decades ago is still evident.
The United States should similarly press China to reduce its support for the Khmer Rouge.
Its yellow-washed, green-shuttered, colonial-era buildings and angular, post-independence "new Khmer" architecture were both, rightly, renowned.
Khmer Rouge bosses told Mr Thayer they would not hand Pol Pot over to international courts.
Khmer is the official national language and spoken by more than 95% of the population.
When the Khmer Rouge moved into Phnom Penh in 1975, Sihanouk returned as head of state.
He refused to break with the Khmer Rouge who still held much military power.
During the 1980s, Beijing was the principal source of aid, through Thailand, to the Khmer Rouge.
The imminent collapse of the Khmer Rouge does not end the questions, of course.
The Paris Peace Accords that year brought Cambodia's warring factions together, including the Khmer Rouge.
Many who did hear accounts of Khmer Rouge brutality found them hard to believe.
Besides, says Hun Sen, the U.N. has some nerve pontificating about the Khmer Rouge.
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Flirted disastrously with Khmer Rouge hardliners in 1997 but now a born-again advocate of justice.
In the 1970s he was with the Khmer Rouge, his enemy the U.S.-backed Lon Nol regime.
An unknown number of Khmer Rouge cadres were simply lynched during the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.
Educated, urbane and charming, 56-year-old Sopheap is not the kind of Khmer Rouge most people know.
Sopheap missed the 1975 Khmer Rouge "liberation" of Phnom Penh as he was in Hanoi.
Ce reporter de 44 ans couvrait les questions environnementales pour le journal Vorakchun Khmer Daily.
Eng Chanthy, 47, lost her father, six brothers and grandfather to the Khmer Rouge due to starvation.
But there are conflicting accounts about the whereabouts of Khmer Rouge heavyweights Ta Mok and Pol Pot.
To many, that sounds like an excuse, since the Khmer Rouge defectors have little fighting clout left.
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Two other key Khmer Rouge figures are thought to be dead but may still be at large.
And to break them, to make them loyal only to the Khmer Rouge, they would make them do terrible things.
Last year, when a Khmer Rouge leader toppled the democratically elected government, we mustered merely a polite protest.
Veata and her parents spoke in Khmer, very softly and quickly, so as to prevent me from understanding.
The classes cover basic literacy in Khmer, and numeracy combined with health information specific to mothers and children.
During half-millennia of Khmer occupation, the city of Angkor became a pilgrimage destination of importance throughout Southeastern Asia.
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