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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nuon Chea, center, who was the Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, sits in the court room during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. A U.N.-backed Cambodian tribunal has begun hearing the first genocide case against the country's brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nhet Sok Heng)

1st Cambodia genocide trial aims to expose crimes

Sopheng Cheang · October 17, 2014 6:44 am

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nuon Chea, center, who was the Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, sits in the court room during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. A U.N.-backed Cambodian tribunal has begun hearing the first genocide case against the country's brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nhet Sok Heng)

Cambodian tribunal opens 1st genocide case

Sopheng Cheang · October 17, 2014 4:23 am

Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison, left, shakes hands with Cambodian Interior Minister Sar Kheng, right, after a signing ceremony of a controversial deal on resettlement of refugees inside the Interior Ministry in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. Cambodia signed the deal with Australia to resettle an unspecified number of refugees currently held at an Australian-run detention camp on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru. About 100 people, including Buddhist monks, demonstrated outside Australia's embassy in Cambodia against the deal. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodians protest Australia resettlement deal

Sopheng Cheang · September 26, 2014 10:29 am

In this July 28, 2014, photo, Sok Sambour, 25, works as a receptionist at a hotel after graduating from accounting school. Her parents told her about that era, including exactly how long the Khmer Rouge rule lasted: three years, eight months and 20 days. An elderly neighbor told her that just catching a fish to eat was enough to be accused of betrayal and face almost certain execution. A U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal will deliver a verdict this coming Thursday in the trial of the two top leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge, whose extremist policies in the late 1970s are blamed for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians though starvation, medical neglect, overwork and execution. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Justice delayed is pondered in Cambodia

Sopheng Cheang · August 2, 2014 6:29 am

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, right, shakes hands with the main opposition party leader Sam Rainsy, left, of Cambodia National Rescue Party, as Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng, center, smiles after their meeting in Senate headquarters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, July 22, 2012. Hun Sen and opposition leader Rainsy said Tuesday that they had agreed upon a joint political solution to end the crisis. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian political rivals say agreement reached

Sopheng Cheang · July 22, 2014 11:21 am

Cambodia's opposition deputy leader Kem Sokha, center left, of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, gives a speech at a blocked main street near Phnom Penh Municipality Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Five of lawmakers from the main opposition party of Cambodia National Rescue Party appeared in the court Wednesday for being questioned that they led about a hundred of their supporters Tuesday to demonstrate in front of the park, asking authorities to open the site to the public. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian opposition MPs charged with insurrection

Sopheng Cheang · July 16, 2014 2:12 pm

About 40 injured at Cambodia opposition protest

Sopheng Cheang · July 15, 2014 2:36 pm

Rescue workers gather around a part of a crashed helicopter retrieved from a pond, a site of an helicopter crash in Prey Sar village at the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 14, 2014. A Cambodian military helicopter crashed during a training mission south of the capital on Monday, killing five people on board, police said.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Copter crash kills 2 Cambodian military generals

Sopheng Cheang · July 14, 2014 10:34 am

Cambodia military helicopter crash kills 5

Sopheng Cheang · July 14, 2014 3:44 am

Cambodian migrant workers get off a Thai truck upon their arrival from Thailand at a Cambodia-Thailand's international border gate in Poipet, Cambodia, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. The number of Cambodians who have returned home from Thailand this month after a threatened crackdown on foreigners working illegally has topped 160,000, a Cambodian official said Monday. Thai officials insist the cross-border movement is voluntary and is not forced repatriation. They say Thai military and government resources were used to transport workers who decided to return home after being laid off because they were working illegally. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian workers’ return from Thailand not smooth

Sopheng Cheang · June 17, 2014 2:11 pm

Cambodian exodus from Thailand grows to 160,000

Sopheng Cheang · June 16, 2014 3:25 pm

Cambodian workers in exodus home from Thailand

Sopheng Cheang · June 14, 2014 2:48 pm