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Promoting Accountability

Record No. BBI0061

Source of Interview: BBI0061 20080813, Or Dar Leu village, Boeung Raing sub-district, Kamrieng district, Battambang province. Interviewed by Long Dany. Notes: interviewed with Neou Lin, 52, None Biography. She got married to Chhum Sophary. She has only child and 3 adopted children. She is now a tailor.

Promoting Accountability

Record No. BMI0011

Source of Interview: BMI0011, 20101014, Trasek Chrum village, Malai sub-district, Malai district, Banteay Meanchey province. Interviewed by: Long Dany. Interviewed with Keo Sarim, female, 49 years old. None Biography.

Promoting Accountability

Record No. BMI0017

Source of Interview: BMI0017 20101015 Trasek Chrum village, Malai commune, Malai district, Banteay Meanchey province. Interviewed by Sokh Vannakk. Interviewed with Hou Im, female, 53 year-old. None biography.

Promoting Accountability

Record No. BMI0018

Source of Interview: BMI0018 20101014 Trasek Chrum village, Malai commune, Malai district, Banteay Meanchey Province. Interviewed by Sorm Bunthorn. Interviewed with Sokh Choeun, female, 56 year-old. None biography.

Promoting Accountability

Record No. BMI0020

Source of Interview: BMI0020 20101015, Kbal Spean village, Malai sub-district, Malai district, Batambang Province. Interviewed by Hin Sotheany. Note: Interviewed with Sin Poeu, male, 48, No Biography.

Bibliography

Record No. D01082

Biography Of Duong Un, Tuol Meas Village, Ta-ong Commune, Chamkar Leu District, Kampong Cham Province

Location of Document/Book: KH, DC-CAM, Document no. D01082

Date of Document:

Bibliography

Record No. D01100

Tep Saroeun’s Biography, Say Village, Baray Commune, Prek Po District, Kampong Cham Province

Location of Document/Book: KH, DC-CAM, Document no. D01100

Date of Document: April 11,1976

Bibliography

Record No. D01207

Brief Biography Of Kong Met Aka Kong Nit, Preah Tunlea Village, Kampong Chamlang Commune, Svay Rieng Province

Location of Document/Book: KH, DC-CAM, Document no. D01207

Date of Document: November 11, 1977

Bibliography

Record No. D01220

Brief biography of Lang Mom Aka Lang Rath, Krava Village, Krava Commune, Baray District, Kampong Cham Province

Location of Document/Book: KH, DC-CAM, Document no. D01220

Date of Document: November 16, 1978

Bibliography

Record No. D01272

Examining The Revolutionary Biography Of Yin Saren, Worksite 1 Office, Ministry Of Agriculture, Phteas Kandal Leu Village, Phteas Kandal Commune, Srey Santhor District, Kampong Cham Province

Location of Document/Book: KH, DC-CAM, Document no. D01272

Date of Document: January 1, 1978

Biography

Record No. I00049

KR Rank 1975-79: Chief of Group

Biography

Record No. I00239

KR Rank 1975-79: Chief of Group

Biography

Record No. I00346

KR Rank 1975-79: Member of Office Y-2, O Kravann District, Ang Duong Hospital

Biography

Record No. I00956

KR Rank 1975-79: Medical Man of Company 5

Biography

Record No. I01062

KR Rank 1975-79: Deputy chief of Group

Victim of Torture

Record No. SHH00465

Ker Mai, female, 86 years old, living in Speu (A) village, Choyo commune, Chamkar Leu district, Kampong Cham province. 10 pages of documents.

Date of Document: 18/01/2022

Victim of Torture

Record No. SHH00467

Kae Amnas, female, 66 years old, living in Speu (A) village, Choyo commune, Chamkar Leu district, Kampong Cham province. 10 pages of documents

Date of Document: 05/03/2022

Victim of Torture

Record No. SHH00483

Khat Seng, Male, 89 years old, living in Speu (A) Village, Choyo Commune, Chamkar Leu District, Kampong Cham Province. 10 pages of documents.

Date of Document: 08/01/2022

Victim of Torture

Record No. SHH00499

Kim Lay, female, 74 years old, lives in Dambang Dek village, Koh Rokar commune, Kampong Siem district, Kampong Cham province. 10 pages of documents.

Date of Document: 15/03/2022

Victim of Torture

Record No. SHH00505

Kum Sim, male, 73 years old, lives in Choyo Village, Choyo Commune, Chamkar Leu District, Kampong Cham Province. 10 pages of documents

Date of Document: 21/03/2022

Victim Participation

Record No. VPA-BM0014

Sann Kry Ya

Date of Document: 20071029

Victim Participation

Record No. VPA-BM0015

Slai Man Mosa

Date of Document:

Victim Participation

Record No. VPA-BM0016

El Pun Ya Min

Date of Document: 20071025

Victim Participation

Record No. VPA-BM0018

Date of Document: 20071025

Victim Participation

Record No. VPA-BM0021

Date of Document: 20071025

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The Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide

The Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide
By Youk Chhang

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide stands alongside the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as one of the key pillars of international human rights law, and for this Human Rights Day in 2022, I want to highlight the critical importance of the responsibility to prevent atrocity crimes, which includes genocide. When atrocity crimes occur, there is an immediate need to stop these atrocious acts, followed by the equally urgent tasks of documenting, investigating, and ultimately prosecuting the perpetrators. However, from 1948 to today, we have not given enough attention to true prevention.

Atrocity crimes do not occur in a vacuum. There is a long chain of events and conditions that precede atrocity crimes. Isolation, segregation, and discrimination frequently, if not always, precede the rationalization of atrocity crimes against a group of people. And before people are discriminated against, they must be dehumanized. The process of dehumanization depends upon rationalizing hatred and distrust, and these processes are precipitated by misinformation, fueled by uninformed biases, stereotypes, and exploitative actors. They are also frequently dependent upon the disintegration, corruption, or lack of development of critical institutions, in particular institutions dedicated to dialogue and education. It is here that we must dedicate our greatest attention.

Since 1948, we have made great strides toward taking actions that interrupt, mitigate, and to a very limited extent, punish the chief perpetrators of atrocity crimes; however, these actions are not preventative but reactive in nature. No atrocities crime trial has ever prevented the next genocide, and no sanctions or punishment can bring back the dead or undo the trauma that extends across multiple generations. Indeed, the trauma of atrocity crimes in the distant past are often the forgotten seeds for the next wave of violence and inhumanity of the future.

If we are to truly adopt strategies that are effective, far reaching, and decisive in preventing atrocity crimes, then our priorities must be re-oriented to the opposite end of the spectrum, where the seeds of the next genocide are cultivated. Our responsibility in complying with foundational human rights documents should be measured not solely by our success at responding, investigating, and prosecuting atrocity crimes, but by our efforts in supporting institutions, initiatives, and actions that have a positive influence in preventing all forms of inhumanity. The most effective strategy at preventing the next genocide is centered on actions and policies that interrupt and reduce the risk of escalation at the earliest stages of inhumanity.

Cambodia recently removed human rights days from public calendars. I think we should reconsider this collective decision. Cambodia has achieved extraordinary success in its genocide education programme, which is the essence of atrocity crimes prevention. And so, to capitalize on this success and Cambodia’s regional and even global leadership in this area, we should hold an annual dialogue on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. As the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) closes its doors, there is no better time than now to preserve Cambodia’s leadership and momentum in realizing the core objectives of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) is proud of the support it has given to the ECCC’s work, which was fundamental to giving victims an opportunity to participate in the justice process and realize some sense of closure from the Khmer Rouge genocide. DC-Cam is also eager to support an annual conference on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. As we commemorate this Human Rights Day, we would be mindful to recognize our fundamental human rights documents are not only universal commitments, but also standards for evaluating the kind of world we are leaving for the next generation.

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Youk Chhang is Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia. The Center dedicating to Justice, Memory, and Healing for survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide.

Photo above: Children at Angkor Wat, 1979. After the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime on 7 January 1979, hundreds of thousands of children were left orphaned. From 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge led Cambodia into tragedy causing the deaths of over 2 million people. Although two millions were killed, five millions more survived to tell their story. The perpetrators of these crimes also survived. Photo: Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives.

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