Original report from Banteay Meanchey
10 March 2010
A leading Cambodian genocide researcher has decided to build a “reconciliation road” in the village where as a young man he was forced to labor under the Khmer Rouge.
Chhang Youk, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, broke ground on the road under the hot sun Tuesday, saying the road was dedicated to the death of his family and other victims of the Khmer Rouge here.
People in the village of Kadal, in Banteay Meanchey province’s Preah Net Preah district, saved his life and the lives of some of his family members, Chhang Youk said Tuesday. But they would be using the road alongside the former soldiers of the regime still living in the area.
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