ON TRIAL: The Khmer Rouge Accountability Process, Edited by John D. Ciorciari and and Anne Heindel Foreword by Youk Chhang (2009)
This book is dedicated to the victims of Democratic Kampuchea and to promoting a legal accountability process that will honor their memories and provide their families with justice. John Ciorciari is an Assistant Professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Senior Legal Advisor to the Documentation […]
BUDDHISM UNDER POL POT, Ian Harris (2007)
This new book by Ian Harris, Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Cumbria, UK, explores the fate of Buddhism before, during, and shortly after Democratic Kampuchea. Prum Phalla of the Documentation Center of Cambodia provided research assistance on this project. Dr. Harris begins with an examination of Buddhism under Sihanouk and Lon Nol, […]
THE CHAM REBELLION: Survivors’ Stories from the Villages, Ysa Osman (2006)
In October 1975, two Cham Muslim villages in Kampong Cham province staged brief and ill-fated rebellions against their oppressors, who had banned the practice of Islam. Armed with swords, knives, sticks, stones and two guns, they killed a member of the subdistrict committee and the chief of the district youth group. After the rebellions were […]
THE KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL, John D. Ciorciari (2006)
Between April 1975 and January 1979, the radical Khmer Rouge regime subjected Cambodians to a wave of atrocities that left over one in four Cambodians dead. For nearly three decades, call for justice went unanswered, and the architects of Khmer Rouge terror enjoyed almost unfettered impunity. Only recently has a tribunal been established to put […]
VANISHED: Stories from Cambodia’s New People under Democratic Kampuchea, Pivoine Beang and Wynne Cougill (2006)
For centuries, Cambodia’s rural peasants had lived in modest circumstances with few entitlements, while the country’s tiny urban elite enjoyed more opportunities and privileges. But in April 1975 when the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia, they reversed this social order. Hundreds of thousands of city dwellers were evacuated to the countryside, where they were […]
TUM TEAV: A Translation and Analysis of a Cambodian Literary Classic, George Chigas (2005)
Tum Teav is the tragic love story of a talented novice monk named Tum and a beautiful adolescent girl named Teav. Well known throughout Cambodia since at least the middle of the 19th century, the story has been told in oral, historical, literary, theatre, and film versions. This monograph contains the author’s translation of the […]
THE CHAIN OF TERROR: The Khmer Rouge Southwest Zone Security System, Ea Meng-Try (2005)
The Khmer Rouge security (prison) system was set up at virtually every political level throughout Democratic Kampuchea. This monograph examines the structure of the security system in the regime’s Southwest Zone, which was considered a model for the revolution, but contained over 250 security centers (DC-Cam has located over 6,000 mass grave sites in this […]
RECONCILIATION IN CAMBODIA, Suzannah Linton (2004)
For the first time, Cambodia’s struggle to deal with its tragic past is put into global context through an examination of the growing of literature in this area, and comparisons with the experiences of such countries as Chile, Argentina, Rwanda, South Africa, and East Timor. The heart of this study is analysis of the extensive […]
SEVEN CANDIDATES FOR PROSECUTION: Accountability for the Crimes of the Khmer Rouge, Stephen Heder and Brian Tittemore (2004)
This study examines the responsibility of seven senior officials for their roles in developing and implementing the murderous policies of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), known to its enemies as the “Khmer Rouge”: Deputy Secretary of the CPK Central Committee Nuon Chea, who is implicated in devising and implementing the Party’s execution policies. Deputy […]
STILLED LIVES: Photographs of the Cambodian Genocide, Wynne Cougill with Pang Pivoine, Ra Chhayran, and Sim Sopheak (2004)
This book contains photographs and essays on the lives of 51 men and women, who joined the Khmer Rouge during the 1960s and 1970s. They were what the Khmer Rouge called “base people”: those from the peasant class who generally were treated less harshly than the “new people” (city dwellers and those associated with the […]