Ta Mok, a Khmer Rouge leader who played a key role in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians in the 1970s, died early today in a Phnom Penh military hospital, where he was awaiting trial on ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, July 21 (UPI) -- Ta Mok, known as "The Butcher" during the Khmer Rouge's genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s, has died at age 80 before facing trial for his alleged crimes. Ta Mok, ...

Ta Mok, known as "The Butcher" for his brutality as military chief of the communist Khmer Rouge, died July 21 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, his lawyer said. He was believed to be 80. Ta Mok had been in and ...

The Cambodia blog has a post on Ta Mok, one of the top killers during the Pol Pot regime. Ta Mok died in a hospital today. The blogger is disappointed that the killer did not pay for his crimes. “Why ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Ta Mok, known as ''The Butcher'' for his brutality as military chief of the communist Khmer Rouge, died Friday, his lawyer said. He was believed to be 80. Ta Mok had been ...

ANLONG VENG, CambodiaANLONG VENG, Cambodia — Just as the chief Khmer Rouge torturer takes the stand before a United Nations-backed genocide tribunal, a mausoleum fit for a king will be unveiled for ...

WHEN Ta Mok died, his body was taken to the mountain jungles of northern Cambodia. There, as the monsoon rains fell, it was laid out on a bed under a dripping porch. Incense burned; a dozen Buddhist ...

In a dimly lighted concrete classroom with smudged and peeling walls, the principal of Anlong Veng High School recalled the man who had built it, the late Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok. "Everyone here ...