Friday, April 30, 2010

CSULB professor urges Cambodians to testify to history at event

Prof. Leakhena Nou with one of the KR victims (Photo: AP)
04/29/2010
By Greg Mellen, Staff Writer
Long Beach Press Telegram

LONG BEACH - For two years now, Leakhena Nou has been engaged in a personal mission.
The sociology professor at Cal State Long Beach has been at the forefront of collecting testimony from victims of 1970s Khmer Rouge atrocities in the Cambodian refugee community. The information could become part of the court records in the ongoing Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal being held in Cambodia.
Even 35 years after the rise of Pol Pot's genocidal regime and more than 30 years after it was toppled, Cambodian residents of Long Beach still struggle with the legacy of a genocide that left upwards of 2 million, or about one-quarter of Cambodia's population dead.
And for years, Nou bristled at the unwillingness to come forth of her countrymen in the Cambodian diaspora who were witnesses to the genocide.
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