Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

PHNOM PENH - Cambodia’s government has approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said on Jan 25.

Cambodia’s Cabinet has approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies ...

The draft was issued three months ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia on April 15 ... from neighboring Vietnam. By that time, the radical policies of the group ...