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LIVING DOCUMENTS
2004-2007
Although newspapers, television, radio, Internet, and other media are
easy to access in Phnom Penh and some of Cambodia’s other cities, few
members of the country’s approximately 1,700 communes (particularly
those in rural areas) have the means to obtain information on the
forthcoming Khmer Rouge tribunal. This is especially true of many of
Democratic Kampuchea’s survivors, who are often poor and whose
educations were interrupted by the regime.
Seeing justice done is perhaps the most critical element of the
healing process for the survivors. The nearly two million lives lost
during the regime can never be brought back, nor can the chance to
enjoy the fruits of a society that might have prospered had the Khmer
Rouge not come to power - but the tribunals will give survivors an
opportunity to know that the world acknowledges their sufferings and
that the regime’s leaders must account for their actions.
This two-year project will help ensure the involvement
of the regime’s victims in the tribunal by bringing representatives of
communes throughout
Cambodia
to attend a portion of a trial. During the first year of the project,
approximately 200 people (in groups of about 30) from representative
communes will travel to Phnom Penh and attend a trial for one week.
This process would be repeated for each of the ensuing trials,
allowing about 1,200 people to attend a trial during the three-year
tribunal.
Each representative would then return to his or her
village and engage other members of the public in discussions on the
proceedings. DC-Cam staff and other experts would attend meetings to
field technical questions and film the proceedings. We would also
publicize the forums in neighboring villages that did not have a
representative at the trials so that their residents can attend.
The project will also
help build the momentum for democracy in
Cambodia by allowing participants to serve as surrogate witnesses and
“judges” at the tribunals; holding open, participatory discussions;
making people aware of their “right to know”; and beginning a popular
movement to demand more freedom of information. It will give the
commune representatives a turn in the public eye (speaking, leading
discussions, fielding questions), thus helping to build leaders for
future commune and village elections. We intend to strengthen this
benefit by giving community innovation and leadership training to
emerging commune leaders.
Contact:
Ly Sok Kheang
Team
Leader
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Living Document Program |
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ECCC Tour February, 2006 |
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ECCC Tour March, 2006 |
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ECCC Tour April, 2006 |
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ECCC Tour May, 2006 |
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ECCC Tour June, 2006 |
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ECCC Tour July, 2006 |
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ECCC Tour August, 2006 |
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ECCC Tour September, 2006 |
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ECCC Tour
October, 2006 |
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ECCC Tour
November, 2006 |
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ECCC
Student Tour
December, 2006 |
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Youth Questions
on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal |
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ECCC Cham Muslim Tour Report |
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ECCC Commune Chief Tour Report |
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ECCC
Cham Mulism Religious Teachers Tour |
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Youth Festival Report |
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ECCC Cham Muslim Youth and Law Students
Tour |
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ECCC Revisiting Genocide
and Learning about Legal Justice |
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Youths Seek Understanding on KR History |
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DC-Cam's Education Tour: How Participants feel about the
ECCC,
Justice, and Reconciliation. |
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DC-Cam
Hosts a Khmer Rouge History Session for the Youth |
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May Legal Information Session: Helping
Victims Understand How Justice Works |
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Understanding the ECCC Legal Process |
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Cambodia's Youth Contemplate Reconciliation |
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Love and Marriage under the KR Regime |
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Duch Pre-Trial Hearing: Commune and
Village Chiefs’ Participation in the ECCC
Under the Living Documents Project |
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Duch
Pre-Trial Hearing: Forty-one Community and Religious Leaders
Continue their Participation in the ECCC Under the Living
Documents Project |
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Statistics of ECCC Participants on
March 17, 2008 |
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Report on Youth Festival in Takeo |
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Remote Villagers Learn About ECCC and Participation Rights |
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Conveying
Khmer Rouge History to Young People |
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Peace and Justice Walk |
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Dream for Dafur Rally on January 20, 2008, at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum,
Cambodia. Photo by Chy Terith
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ECCC Tour Survey Result |
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ECCC Tour
Photos |
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Outreach Maps |
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Outreach Survey Report |
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Drama |
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Road Trip -
More Screening |
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