Source: UNPO
Phnom Penh will rebuild a Reconciliation Memorial in the name of past victims of the Khmer Rouge, including 2,000 Khmer Krom.Thirty years after the Khmer Rouge executed thousands of Cambodians on a sugarcane field in Pursat, the Documentation Centre of Cambodia [DC-Cam] announced that a new memorial stupa will be built by the community with its assistance.
DC-Cam members and about 500 villagers from Pursat's Bakan district gathered next to that same field last Sunday, DC-Cam director Youk Chhang said, adding that it was then that he decided to help build a memorial to replace one that had rotted away.
On his return to Phnom Penh, he said he contacted Columbia University's architecture school for assistance.
More than 2,000 Khmer Krom were killed by the Khmer Rouge at the site, along with thousands more Cambodians brought from the Eastern District, Youk Chhang said .
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