S-21 or Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (http://www.tuolsleng.com/) was a Phnom Penh school turned into a prison by the Khmer Rouge, now preserved as a genocide museum. It is estimated that as many as 20,000 people may have been detained at S-21 where they were torchered and killed. The map of Cambodia made of skulls and [...]
I attended the Center for Justice and Reconciliation (CJR, http://www.cjr-cambodia.org/) National Conference on Victim’s Participation, “Moving Forward, Together: Transforming Killing Fields to Living Fields.”
A panel of ECCC officials from various branches of the ECCC and victims’ association representatives answered questions from an audience estimated at about 200+ at Pannasastra.
Some observations:
victims want to share their personal [...]
The East West Center of Berkeley is co-producing a weekly television show in Cambodia “Duch on Trial” — a show that recaps and explains the week’s events in the ECCC. This show is averaging 5million viewers each week, meaning that 1 in 5 Cambodians sees this show. This is encouraging, especially in light of the [...]
http://hrc.berkeley.edu/cambodia.html
The UC Berkeley Human Rights Center conducted a population-based survey last year of Cambodians to assess public awareness and attitudes towards the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC, http://www.eccc.gov.kh/), the join national/international tribunal trying accused Khmer Rouge war criminals.
The survey finds, among other conclusions, that the ECCC should “Greatly expand and improve the [...]
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~changmin/virtualtribunal.htm
This Fall, I joined a project at Berkeley called the Virtual Tribunal. The Virtual Tribunal is envisioned as an interactive online multimedia repository for the documents of war crimes tribunals from Nuremberg to the present. In addition to the documents of the court, the Virtual Tribunal will include documents related to the associated wars and [...]