Cambodia
As many as 1.7 million people are estimated to have died as a result of the policies of the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, Cambodia’s urban population was forcibly moved into the countryside as part of enforcing agricultural reform policies.
The independent Documentation Center of Cambodia, set up in 1994, has identified 19,733 mass graves spread over 388 sites.
In 2001 special UN-backed courts were established to bring Khmer Rouge officials to justice. Several senior Khmer Rouge leaders who were prosecuted died before the conclusion of their cases, and the 16-year process which ended in 2022 resulted in only three convictions.
Continuing human rights violations, though nowhere near the scale perpetrated under the Khmer Rouge, have been reported during the decades-long Hun Sen regime.
Cambodia ratified the ICPPED in June 2013.
