Angkor Wat, in the town of Siem Reap, ... most of all, its own legacy as the birthplace of the mighty Khmer Empire and the shadow of the diabolic Khmer Rouge. ...

Even the Khmer Rouge’s damage couldn’t stop the restoration. By 2004, thanks to hard work, Angkor Wat was off the danger list ...

Many people who fled Cambodia in the 1970s, escaping the brutal genocide orchestrated by the Khmer Rouge, have never seen Angkor Wat — the temple complex that has been a constant in the ...

A few years later, in 1968, the dreaded Khmer Rouge was formed. ... The ruins of Angkor Wat were closed to visitors for almost 30 years. Cambodia is safe and open again to tourists, ...

In 1975, the Khmer Rouge, a radical communist group, took over Cambodia. About 2 million Cambodians were killed or starved to death under the regime. ... At Angkor Wat, ...

A recent report by Amnesty International, detailing the forced evictions of up to 10,000 families at the Angkor temples in Cambodia, shows that the country’s post-Khmer Rouge tradition of land ...

It has taken that long for the population to begin to recover from the genocide of 1975-1978, when the Khmer Rouge, ... His lyrical descriptions of Angkor Wat paid homage to its builders, ...

The area within the moat of just one Khmer temple, Angkor Wat, is on its own almost four times the size of Vatican City. Yet the place of this great state’s founding is now all but lost in the ...

Siem Reap’s biggest draw is its proximity to Angkor Wat—meaning “City of Temples” in the Khmer language, officially the Angkor Archaeological Park—but the second largest city in Cambodia ...

Between nuggets of information about Angkor’s history were stories of his own experience growing up locally in the shadow of the Cambodian civil war and the Khmer Rouge. You can book Angkor Wat ...