Gathering held on Chicago's North Side for Cambodian Day of Remembrance

Gathering held on Chicago's North Side for Cambodian Day of Remembrance

Chicago-area Cambodians gathered on the city's Far North Side for a day of remembrance, marking a grim chapter in the nation's history and honoring the millions of lives lost decades ago.

Survivors of the massacres were prohibited from praying in front of the remains of the victims.

In Cambodia: the civil war ended but one of the most violent regimes of the twentieth century began, which lasted four years

Cambodia Is Still Haunted by the Legacy of the Khmer Rouge

Fifty years ago today, the Khmer Rouge took power in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Instead of rebuilding the country after a destructive US bombing campaign, Pol Pot’s movement plunged it into one of the last century’s most horrifying catastrophes.

Fifty years ago, on April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge took control of the Cambodian capital and began one of the bloodiest social experiments of the 20th century. However, we cannot find direct testimony about that day in the Czechoslovak archives. No one was there to provide it.

Silent killing fields 50 years on from Khmer Rouge atrocities

Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its genocidal rule were forbidden from praying before victims' skulls.