Cambodia’s Genocide Memorial Sites Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
On Friday, July 11, 2025, during its 47th session held in Paris, France, the World Heritage Committee unanimously approved the inscription of “Memorial Sites of Cambodia: Former Security Prison M-13, ...
Khmer Rouge History Study Session for PSE Students
On Monday, July 7, 2025, around forty Grade 10 students from Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE) participated in a study session held at the Queen Mother Library and the Documentation Center of Cambodia. T...
Book Release: “Village Stories of the Khmer Rouge Years”
PHNOM PENH — Hong Vansothy remembers sitting in front of the television set with her mother and grandmother. This was in the 2010s and they were watching a broadcast of the trial of the Khmer Rouge le...
Across Continents: The Importance of Personal Responsibility in Atrocity Crimes Prevention
Ms. Farina So, Principal Deputy Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) was proud to describe her observations of the first day of a 3-day “Listening and Leading” Genocide Conference...
MEMORY IN LIFE OF A KHMER ROUGE GENOCIDE SURVIVOR
By Youk Chhang
17 April 2024
Dedicating this article to those who were forced by the Khmer Rouge to leave home on 17 April 1975.
As a genocide survivor of the Khmer Rouge and the executive di...
Khmer Rouge Railways to the Northwest: Young Cambodians Embark on a Historical Journey and Study Tour
Departure at Phnom Penh Railway Station
In the early morning of March 24th, 2024, a group of volunteers was waiting at the train station in Phnom Penh.
They were about to embark on a trip to look in...
Genetic Testing to Fight Cancer Discussed during DC-Cam 5th Cambodian Medical Students Workshop
Genetic Testing to Fight Cancer Discussed during DC-Cam 5th Cambodian Medical Students Workshop with Dr. Manop Pithukpakorn of Thailand (Clinical Molecular Genetics, American Board of Medical Genetics...
Khieu Samphan is claiming victimhood
Truth does not need the law for protection; though, equally so, evil should be given no platform for its excusal, diminishment, or vindication. Khieu Samphan’s request for a computer, and his attorney...
Establishing Sleuk Rith: Cambodia needs genocide museum-institute
Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge’s march through Phnom Penh, which turned Cambodia into a living hell for the next four years, leading to one of history’s greatest atrocitie...
How Wild Yam Turned Lifesaver during the Khmer Rouge Years
PURSAT - Some people call it gadung, others kduech, but for many who lived in Cambodia during the civil war and Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s and the civil war that followed in the 1980s, this wild ...
Strengthening Educational Responses to the Prevention of Genocide
On the special occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Organized by United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibi...