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Former child soldier undoes past, one landmine at a time

Aki Ra was forced to be a child soldier in the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the early 1980s, taught to shoot a gun and plant deadly landmines.

Evictions hit Cambodia's poor, group says

Villagers march more than 300 kilometers from northwest Cambodia to ask the prime minister to save their homes from developers. Some 400 families in the country's south learn their farmland had been given to developers only when bulldozers arrive.

Cambodia's long road to justice

Norng Chan Phal ran through the notorious Khmer Rouge prison S-21 in the Cambodian capital as a 9-year-old boy, frantically looking for his mother after their torturers had fled from advancing Vietnamese troops in 1979.

Cambodia confronts its past with war crimes tribunal

Cambodia is a country that throws up the most staggering barbed facts that catch the mind and should stick inconveniently in our conscience.

Killing Fields: Long Road to Justice

In Killing Fields: Long Road to Justice," CNN sheds new light on atrocities committed in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-1979.

Cambodia's first rock opera hopes its stage will be a bridge

A man strums an electric guitar while another musician blows on a buffalo horn converted into an instrument. A boy performs the traditional Cambodian monkey dance spliced in with breakdancing beats while a singer raps to the moves.

Cambodian art: Past to present

Bamboo, woven into the shape of human stomachs. Red, sky blue and orange pencil shavings glued onto a large canvas form a woman's traditional hair clip. A collage of magazine clippings, drawings and found materials depict Cambodia's tumultuous modern history.

Former Khmer Rouge: 'If you don't do what they say, you die'

More than 30 years after the genocide, the killing fields still cover Cambodia.

'Killing fields' survivor documents Cambodian genocide

Youk Chhang knows the truth about the Cambodian genocide perhaps better than anyone in the world.

Attorneys seek to ease Khmer Rouge prison chief detention

Attorneys for Kaing Guek Eav lobbied Wednesday to ease conditions under which the former Khmer Rouge prison chief is being held during his trial.

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