Youk Chhang knows the truth about the Cambodian genocide perhaps better than anyone in the world. He was 13 when the Khmer Rouge came to power. Separated from his family, forced into slave labor, ...

To deter the Khmer Rouge, the bridge was mined and the village's rice fields were also heavily mined as a no-man's-land perimeter. Even footpaths in the village were mined. "It was very difficult ...

The Cambodian Mines Action Center, the agency that oversees demining operations, said the two men had been working to clear mines from a farmer’s rice field ... and insurgent Khmer Rouge forces ...

Two Cambodian deminers were killed while trying to remove a decades-old anti-tank mine from a rice field that was once a battlefield between government forces and Khmer Rouge soldiers, officials said.