Published: Thu, Jul. 09, 2009
By JOEL BRINKLEY
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
KAMPONG SPEU, Cambodia -- They started arriving before 8 a.m., middle-age men and women, poor rice farmers mostly - damaged survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime.
The Documentation Center of Cambodia, a private research organization that collects evidence of the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, was bringing to this small provincial town a video projector and a DVD. It shows highlights of the current defendant's testimony in the Khmer Rouge trial under way in Phnom Penh.
"I want to contribute to engaging the victims in the court process," explained Youk Chhang, the center's director. "Some Cambodians have moved on. But there are others who still suffer, and these are the ones we are targeting."
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