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Eni Aluko ‘glad justice has been served’ after Joey Barton convicted

A jury found the 43-year-old had ‘crossed the line between free speech and a crime’ with six posts he made on X.

Evening Standard

Judge blasts Joey Barton for wearing union flag scarf to court

Judge criticises former Premier League footballer over ‘stunt’ as he was convicted of sending grossly offensive posts on X to Jeremy Vine, Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko

Evening Standard

Our Brother review – power games with Pol Pot

A naive Scottish academic is granted an audience with the genocidal Cambodian dictator in Jack MacGregor’s play

The Guardian - UK

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Anxiety And Pride Among Cambodia's Future Conscripts

The generation of Cambodians who may find themselves in the firing line when the country introduces military conscription is split between quiet pangs of anxiety and proud proclamations of patriotism.

International Business Times

Three Cambodia Genocide Sites Added To UNESCO Register

Three notorious Cambodian torture and execution sites used by the Khmer Rouge regime to perpetrate genocide 50 years ago were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List on Friday.

International Business Times

“He mentioned how much he admired Pol Pot and Nicolae Ceaușescu for the way they could control the populace”: Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous

Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous

Metal Hammer

Silent Killing Fields 50 Years On From Khmer Rouge Atrocities

Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its genocidal rule were forbidden from praying before victims' skulls.

International Business Times

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Fifty years after fall of Phnom Penh, history weighs on Cambodian politics

The Khmer Rouge rise to power and overthrow are foundational to Cambodian People’s Party legitimacy, but memories fade.

Al Jazeera

Lessons In Horror With Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went through in a Khmer Rouge labour camp.

International Business Times

Cambodia Genocide Denial Law Open To Abuse, Say Critics

Survivors of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal regime welcome a beefed-up Cambodian law that forbids denying the movement's atrocities, but rights advocates and academics warn it could also stifle legitimate dissent.

International Business Times

A Coffin For Pol Pot's Memory, 50 Years After Phnom Penh's Fall

A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to the estimated two million Cambodian lives lost under his genocidal rule.

International Business Times

Joey Barton denies calling Jeremy Vine ‘bike nonce’ and comparing female pundits to serial killers

Former footballer Barton is accused of 12 offences relating to allegedly grossly offensive social media posts

Evening Standard

From 'Bridgerton' to the big screen: Simone Ashley's rise to fame

She's best known on the small screen as Kate Sharma after her star turn in the second season of the hit series "Bridgerton". Eve Jackson sat down with Simone Ashley at the Cannes Film Festival to talk about her upcoming movie, embracing fashion and the fabulous costumes she gets to…

France 24

Cannes hosts red carpet rally, Coppola’s comeback and a meeting with Pol Pot

Hollywood legend Francis Ford Coppola brought his decades-in-the-making “Megalopolis” to the Cannes Film Festival and Cambodia’s Rithy Panh delivered another sobering chronicle of the Khmer Rouge genocide on a day that saw dozens of women join France’s #MeToo icon Judith Godrèche on the red carpet to denounce sexual violence and…

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Reason

Pol Pot's Atrocities Still Matter, 45 Years After Khmer Rouge's Fall

Like many horrors throughout history, they were rooted in radical ideas aimed at implementing some utopian vision.

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Joey Barton continues hate-filled tirade by comparing Eni Aluko to two of most evil people in history

Barton has recently posted a series of attacks against women in football on social media, drawing strong criticism from throughout the game

The Guardian - UK

John Pilger obituary

Campaigning journalist, film-maker, author and fervent critic of US and British foreign policy

International Business Times

Campaigning Journalist John Pilger Dies Aged 84

Australian-born investigative journalist and documentary maker John Pilger, known for his support for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his coverage of the aftermath of Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia and the Thalidomide scandal, has died in London, his family said Sunday.

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The Week

The far-reaching consequences of Cambodia’s ‘sham’ election

Hun Sen, Cambodia’s leader for almost four decades, has announced his resignation and said he will hand the reins of power over to his eldest son.

The News Lens

China’s Defense Ties With Cambodia Raise Red Flags for Vietnam

Hanoi fears that China is using Cambodia as a tool to pressure Vietnam on its southern border.

Salon

Right freaks out over Trump indictment

Trump vows to "defeat" Bragg and Biden in lengthy screed — but no protests so far as MAGA world vents its shock

Fortune

'Based AI': Elon Musk praises Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered Bing for comparing an AP reporter to Adolf Hitler

The edgy CEO of Twitter, himself a critic of the media, lauded Microsoft's AI search engine for likening a journalist to despots Hitler and Pol Pot.

WEKU

Nate Thayer, rebel reporter who interviewed Pol Pot in the Cambodian jungle, has died

After tracking him for nearly a decade, Nate Thayer became the last Western correspondent to interview the murderous Khmer Rouge leader. Thayer died at his home in Falmouth, Mass., at age 62.

The Independent UK

Nate Thayer, reporter who interviewed Pol Pot, dies

Nate Thayer, a fearless reporter who survived several brushes with death over decades covering conflict in Southeast Asia and was the last western journalist to interview Pol Pot, the leader of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, has died

AAP

Divorced axe killer found guilty of murder

An elderly divorcee has been found guilty of murder by a jury after he angrily ran down his ex-wife's new partner and repeatedly hit him with an axe.

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