Long Beach City Hall has allocated a plot of land for the construction of a memorial to the “killing fields”.
The Documentation Center of Cambodia has been the most prominent Cambodian institution to research and record the history and suffering under the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has on numerous occasions expressed objections to the pursuit of further prosecutions and warned of “civil war” if international prosecutors continue to try former member of the regime.
John Burgess, an American author and former Washington Post journalist, will launch the exhibition, titled “Cambodia Reawakening: One Year After the Khmer Rouge”.
The Anlong Veng Peace Center Project is located atop Dangrek Mountain, where one of the regime’s most notorious leaders, Ta Mok, was based.
The CPP won seven out of nine council seats in Anlong Veng commune at the last election in 2012, taking more than 8,000 of the 11,500 seats nationwide.
Im Chaem was charged in March 2015 with crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, enslavement, imprisonment and political persecution.
Analysts and election observers said that Prime Minister Hun Sen was attempting to use the memory of Khmer Rouge victims to score political points.
In new radio documentary, Greg Barron explores experiences of Cambodians who fled Pol Pot, decades after they, and he, spent time in Thai refugee camps.
During his two weeks visiting several refugee camps in Thailand and Cambodia, Barron witnessed a “horrifying” experience of Cambodian people –many looked as skinny as skeleton and suffered severe coughing from lung disease –who sought refuges in the first world countries.
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