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Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge

By epfotzer

  • Khmer Rouge enters Phnon Penh.

    The Khmer Rouge enters the capital and takes power.

  • Phnom Penh falls to the Vietnamese.

    Khmer forces flee to the Thai border.

  • Former Khmer Rouge member Hun Sen becomes prime minister.

  • Peace Agreement Signed in Paris.

    Cambodia is placed under United Nations supervision.

  • Cambodia holds its first democratic elections.

  • Prince Norodom Ranariddh becomes first prime minister.

    Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party is named second prime minister.

  • Cambodia outlaws the Khmer Rouge.

  • Hun Sen ousts Norodom Ranariddh after violent clashes.

  • Pol Pot dies.

  • Pol Pot's deputy, Nuon Chea, defects to the government.

  • Cambodian authorities arrest Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, for his role as head of the Khmer Rouge S-21 interrogation centre.

  • The United Nations and Cambodia agree to an international tribunal for former Khmer Rouge leaders.

  • Duch goes on trial in first case at Cambodia's U.N.-backed war crimes court.

  • Duch sentenced to 30 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

  • Top former regime leaders indicted.

    Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith and Khieu Samphan are indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

  • The tribunals's second trial involving the regime's four most senior surviving leaders opens.

  • Judges say leng Thirith is unfit for trial.

    She was diagnosed with dementia and judges say she should be released immediately. But she is held while appeal is underway.

  • The court hears opening statements in the case against the remaining three defendants.