JOURNAL ARTICLE

KHMER ROUGE LEADERS APOLOGISE.

  • Published In: All About History, 2026, n. 164. P. 6 1 of 2

  • Database: History Reference Ultimate 2 of 2

Abstract

At a press conference in Phnom Penh two leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the communist movement that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, apologised for the genocide perpetrated by their regime. The leader of the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, had died the previous April. During their rule, mass killings of around two million people, nearly 25 percent of the country’s population, were carried out. In their brief apologies, which many Cambodians found insincere, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea asked people to “please forget the past.” [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:All About History. 2026/01, Issue 164, p6
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Geography and Cartography
  • Publication Date:2026
  • ISSN:2052-5877
  • Accession Number:190320436
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