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The question of genocide and Cambodia’s Muslims. As many 500,000 Muslim Cham were killed by the Khmer Rouge during the 1970s, but some question if it was genocide.
Osman Ysa is the author of three books about the Cham, the most recent of which is Cham Muslim and Khmer Buddhist Intermarriage, which was published in 2010. “Cham people don’t normally have extreme ...
For Prime Minister Hun Manet, it is a ‘significant gift’ from Cambodia to the world and a symbol of ‘memory, reconciliation ...
But after the Communist takeover in 1975, the Cham and other minorities were singled out for persecution by the Khmer Rouge. Today, about 132 refugee families have settled in Orange County, the ...
For months, the Khmer Rouge had placed increasing pressure on this historic Cham Muslim village. The regime’s cadres shut down mosques, ordered an end to praying and forced villagers to eat pork.
A United Nations-backed court began a new phase Wednesday in the trial of two surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge—with charges related to the genocide of Cambodia's Cham Muslim minority ...
KAMPONG CHAM, Cambodia — He looks out from the picture, ... The Khmer Rouge fell in January 1979, overthrown by the Vietnamese army with assistance from defectors like Hun Sen.
The international co-investigating judge at Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal forged ahead with his work on a government-opposed case Monday, laying extra charges on the former deputy secretary of ...
Those who stayed in Cambodia — 20,000 to 30,000 people — were slaughtered, alongside 90,000 Cham and as many as 100,000 Khmer civilians who were condemned for the crime of having “Khmer ...
VietNamNet Bridge – An Giang is the land of native Vietnamese, Chinese, Khmer and Cham people living peacefully together for hundreds of years. The local Cham community mainly follows Muslim, creating ...