August 3, 2009
ABC Radio Australia
It was one of the most brutal periods of recent history and saw up to 2 million Cambodians killed by overwork and paranoid purges. And yet the rule of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979 was completely left out of the official history of Cambodia for a generation of schoolchildren.
Now, with a UN-backed tribunal underway for five top Khmer Rouge leaders, Cambodia's government will include a text on the Khmer Rouge in its 2009 high school curriculum. Half a million copies of A History of Democratic Kampuchea are being distributed to more than 1,300 schools across the country for grades nine through 12.
Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speaker: Youk Chhang, Director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia; Son Chhay, Opposition Member of Cambodia's Parliament
ABC Radio Australia
It was one of the most brutal periods of recent history and saw up to 2 million Cambodians killed by overwork and paranoid purges. And yet the rule of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979 was completely left out of the official history of Cambodia for a generation of schoolchildren.
Now, with a UN-backed tribunal underway for five top Khmer Rouge leaders, Cambodia's government will include a text on the Khmer Rouge in its 2009 high school curriculum. Half a million copies of A History of Democratic Kampuchea are being distributed to more than 1,300 schools across the country for grades nine through 12.
Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speaker: Youk Chhang, Director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia; Son Chhay, Opposition Member of Cambodia's Parliament
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