Duch sentenced to 30 years
Cambodia’s war crimes tribunal today handed down its first guilty verdict against a senior Khmer Rouge figure, Tuol Sleng prison director Duch, for crimes committed under the regime more than 30 years ago. Judges at the United Nations-backed court sentenced Duch to 35 years in prison. However, they reduced his sentence by five years after ruling that he had been illegally detained by a military court following his arrest in 1999. Duch's prison term was reduced by a further 11 years for...
- Day of reckoning (26-07-2010 The Phnom Penh Post)
- KRT on track for Case 002 indictments (16-07-2010 The Phnom Penh Post)
- Tuol Sleng torture survivor starts group for Khmer Rouge victims (4-02-2010 The Phnom Penh Post)
- Civil party reforms at KRT (29-01-2010 The Phnom Penh Post)
- Interview between Neth Pheaktra and Samdech Hun Sen on the Khmer Rouge Trials. (24-06-2008: The Mekong Times Daily)
- The last road volume 6 (20-06-2008: Women's Media Center of Cambodia)
- The last road volume 5 (20-06-2008: Women's Media Center of Cambodia)
- The last road volume 4 (20-06-2008: Women's Media Center of Cambodia)
- The last road volume 3 (20-06-2008: Women's Media Center of Cambodia)
News Summary for September 2009
All Windows and Doors Were Closed
The annual May 20 ceremony, called Anger Day or Remembrance Day, marks the day in 1976 when the Khmer Rouge leaders decided to transform Cambodia into a completely agrarian society that led to the death of nearly two million Cambodians. It is usually celebrated in places where there were mass killings during the Khmer Rouge regime. Kampong Tralach pagoda was used as prison or detention center by the Khmer Rouge during its rule of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. All windows and doors were closed...
A Narration of Carvings
The hunger, loss, hardship and atrocity in the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until 1979 ended 30 years ago. However, the cruel activities and the sufferings resulting from this regime still exist in the minds of the survivors whenever they think of the Khmer Rouge regime. Similar to some other pagoda in Cambodia. Wat Samroung Khnong in Battambang province, about one kilometer north of the town, was used as a prison and killing place...
Music Blared from loudspeakers
A 62-year-old Buddhist layman, Yim Smoa is talking loudly against the sound of the loudspeaker blaring 1960s-love songs nearby. He is talking about what happened at Wat Batheay pagoda in Kampong Cham province during the Khmer Rouge regime. “During the killings, the Khmer Rouge played music from the loudspeaker so that the sound of the speakers overwhelmed the screams of the victims,” said the Buddhist layman. During the Pol Pot regime Yin Smoa worked and lived with 20 other families...
The Tangible Khmer Rouge Aftermaths
- You see? What has been left from the Khmer Rouge regime are those,” Oem Thoy, 58, Ampe Phnom villager said, pointing his finger to a well-constructed concrete stupa. The stupa is full of skulls and bones of Khmer Rouge victims at Ampe Phnom Memorial in Kampong Speu province, “It is so vital that we keep those remains to show the next generations who have no experience of the Khmer Rouge regime”, he added. Apart from the memorial, Ampe Phnom resort is well-known for tourism in Kampong Speu province. Visitors can have a rest in the thatched-roof huts, get fresh air and eat delicious roasted chicken...
The Excavated Bones Went Back Into the Ground
The remains of the Khmer Rouge regime victims in Daun Dei village have all gone back into the ground after thirty years, during which they had been kept and stored in a stupa. In the early 1980s hundreds of Khmer Rouge victims’ remains had been taken out from dozens of small and big pits. The villagers and the local authority wanted to keep those remains as evidence of the Khmer Rouge regime...
Every Family Had to Collect Five Skulls (29 March, 2010)
The ECCC Should Address Starvation to Fulfill its Mandate (20 January, 2010)
A Hospital, a place to Die (30 December, 2009)
Report Survey Conducted (26 November, 2009)
The Court Report of ECCC for November 2009 (26 November, 2009)
Remains of 2,000 victims Burned (28 October, 2009)
Victims Unit Outreach in Kampong Cham and Pursat (27 October, 2009)
A Child Soldier of the Khmer Rouge Regime (27 October, 2009)
Regional Workshop Report on a Kampot’s civil party Forum (16 October, 2009)
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Publications

A HISTORY OF DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA 1975-1979(part2)
Source: Documentation Center of Cambodia
By: KHAMBOLY DY

A HISTORY OF DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA 1975-1979(part1)
Source: Documentation Center of Cambodia
By: KHAMBOLY DY








