Anlong Veng Tour Guides: “This training Helps Improve the Community” September 2019

On September 19-20, 2019, Oddar Meanchey Tourism Department in collaboration with Anlong Veng Peace Center of Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) organized the third training for tour guides. The trainings are designed to raise public awareness about the history of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) and the Anlong Veng community, to maintain peace and tolerance, and to […]

Former Khmer Rouge Members Send Children to School as Family Morality Returns July 2019

We conducted a classroom forum on the history of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) and the Anlong Veng community at Rumchek Secondary School in Anlong Veng district on July 18, 2019. The enthusiastic participation of forty-eight students was symbol of profound change since the time of their parents’ education.  During the DK, and for years afterward in […]

Former Khmer Rouge Members Send Children to School as Family Morality Returns

We conducted a classroom forum on the history of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) and the Anlong Veng community at Rumchek Secondary School in Anlong Veng district on July 18, 2019. The enthusiastic participation of forty-eight students was symbol of profound change since the time of their parents’ education.  During the DK, and for years afterward in […]

Democratic Kampuchea History: Classroom Complementary to Daily Narratives

On June 19th, 2019, the Peace Center hosted a community forum at O-Sramar Secondary School. Forty-eight students, twenty-nine male and nineteen female, participated in an event which highlighted topics in the study of the history of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) and its particular relevance to Anlong Veng. The forum was the third in a series, following […]

Khav Chanla: Oppression Breeds Resistance May 2019

Eighteen-year-old Khav Chanla grew up and studies at Anlong Veng High School, the first high school of its kind in the final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge movement, Anlong Veng. Born to a father of hill tribe Tumpuon and a Laotian mother, Chanla is confident to say he has not been stigmatized and shamed because his parents […]

Khav Chanla: Oppression Breeds Resistance

Eighteen-year-old Khav Chanla grew up and studies at Anlong Veng High School, the first high school of its kind in the final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge movement, Anlong Veng. Born to a father of hill tribe Tumpuon and a Laotian mother, Chanla is confident to say he has not been stigmatized and shamed because his parents […]

Anlong Veng Walking Trails: A Bold Step to Peace January 2019

“Walking Trails” hit a milestone on January 5, 2019 for the Anlong Veng Peace Center’s work to promote memory, reconciliation, and peace building. The event attracted more than one thousand people who gathered together, to chat, wear the same sport T-Shirt, participate in a fun run, and to walk on the Dangrek mountain. This was […]

Ou Saran: I Am a Part of the Past Mistake

Ou Saran was the only guest speaker who shared his personal experience about his time with the Khmer Rouge movement with 15 pre-service teachers from the Institute of Regional Teacher Training-Battambang and Anlong Veng High School in December 2018. Making no attempt to hide his background as a former KR soldier, the 65-year-old of Koh […]

Ou Saran: I Am a Part of the Past Mistake December 2018

Ou Saran was the only guest speaker who shared his personal experience about his time with the Khmer Rouge movement with 15 pre-service teachers from the Institute of Regional Teacher Training-Battambang and Anlong Veng High School in December 2018. Making no attempt to hide his background as a former KR soldier, the 65-year-old of Koh […]

A Community of Understanding and Healing

From July 16-19, 2018, a group of twenty-four students from the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) and Anlong Veng High School participated in a study tour aimed at providing them with basic knowledge of the history of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979), Anlong Veng community history (1979-1998), and also core concepts of peace and reconciliation. […]