By The Associated Press (CP)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Giant anti-genocide banners will be displayed at Cambodian schools starting next year as part of an ongoing quest to educate the young about the country's painful history.
The Education Ministry approved a request to hang two banners at all 1,700 high schools nationwide, according to the country's leading independent Khmer Rouge research group, which proposed the idea and made the ministry's approval letter public on Tuesday.
The banners are part of an ongoing effort to fill a knowledge gap among the young about the Khmer Rouge's brutal 1975-79 rule that left 1.7 million dead through hunger, disease and executions, said Youk Chhang, director of The Documentation Center of Cambodia.
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