And Hun Sen will be the man in charge, even if his son is the prime minister.” Hun Sen joined the Khmer Rouge at age 18 as it fought to seize power, losing his left eye in the final battle for ...

Cambodia's authoritarian Prime Minister Hun Sen officially transfers leadership to his son after 38 years in power. Few expect the former commander of communist group Khmer Rouge to leave politics.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, one of the world's longest-serving ... after almost four decades of hardline rule. The former Khmer Rouge cadre has run the kingdom since 1985, eliminating ...

Hun Sen started his political life as a middle-ranking commander in the radical communist Khmer Rouge, which was blamed for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians from starvation ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday he will step down in August and hand the position to his oldest son, though Asia’s longest-serving leader is expected to ...

A former Khmer Rouge commander who switched sides, Hun Sen has ruled Cambodia for nearly four decades. The country’s elections were initially competitive and an opposition tolerated. But in more ...

Born in rural Kampong Cham province, Hun Sen joined the Khmer Rouge at 18, rose to become a mid-ranking commander and lost an eye from shrapnel only weeks before the communist forces took control ...

Interview: Jean-Marc Lavergne, one of two French judges appointed by the United Nations to serve in the Khmer Rouge trials in ...

Mr. Hun Sen, a Khmer Rouge defector and onetime Communist Party prime minister, has lasted in power for 38 years through a combination of guile and repression. Western governments have long ...

It was made at the request of influential former leader Hun Sen who in May claimed that some politicians still refused to recognise the Khmer Rouge’s genocide and called on the government to ...