Advocating for the Arts Published: 3 July 2025 The Cambodian people have seen massive shifts of the pendulum when it comes to their art, architecture and music.
Out of the Darkness: One Story at a Time Published: 26 June 2025 As Cambodia closes in on 50 years since the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, generational trauma persists in many households and the country continues to maneuver the legacy of the mass atrocities committed during the 1970s.
The Lingering Shadow of the Past: A Reflection of the Survivors' next Generation Published: 8 April 2025 This essay reflects on the history of the Khmer Rouge through a millennial, second-generation survivor's perspective, informed by recounted stories and existing research as way of embracing the future. Sotheavin Doch
Speak Out Sister Project Published: 8 April 2025 ‘Speak Out sister project’: the NGO KDKG and its cultural centre Meta House, implements Cambodia’s first multi-media campaign “Speak Out, Sisters” (SOS). SOS raises awareness for the plight of SGBV-survivors in past and present among Cambodian youth as a catalyst for positive change. Project activities include interactive theatre in classrooms, schoolyard exhibitions, intergenerational dialogues, video productions, TV broadcasts and social media outreach in cooperation with NGO “Women’s Media Center” (WMC and the “Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports” (MoEYS). Desired changes are to alter community perceptions of past and present SGBV and to make the broader public more aware that women’s priorities are central to peace.
GIZ Cambodia Published: 8 April 2025 GIZ Cambodia supports justice and healing processes. The project aims to integrate the ECCC’s experiences into Cambodia’s national reconciliation processes, promoting healing for the victims and long term social reconciliation.
Khmer Rouge Tribunal or Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Published: 8 April 2025 Khmer Rouge Tribunal or Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) designed as a resource for researchers, educators, and the general public, the ECCC website provides up-to-date information on the court's proceedings, open access to public archives, and interactive tools to deepen understanding of the legal efforts to address the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge.
Kdei Karuna Published: 8 April 2025 Kdei Karuna works with young people, schools, and survivors to explore the issue of gender-based violence during the Khmer Rouge regime. Their activities include youth soft skills development, creating safe spaces for sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) survivors, empowering youth leaders to address past community conflicts, and establishing youth-friendly clubs focused on Khmer Rouge history and peer education.
Gender-based Violence under Khmer Rouge Published: 7 April 2025 This article is based on a presentation by Ms. Kasumi Nagakawa during a panel discussion at a 2015 HBF conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh. Read full conference report here
Cambodia the Rise and Fall of Khmer Regime Published: 7 April 2025 This publication is a learning module found at the Asia Pacific Curriculum website. It is a recommended reading material to understand backgrounds of the evolution of Khmer Rouge regime. It is written by Dr. Eve Monique Zucker who is an independent scholar and research affiliate of the Council on Southeast Asian Studies, Yale University.
Film Review: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Published: 27 June 2018 This is the first major filmic intervention dealing with the genocide by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the late 1970s since Roland Joffe’s The Killing Fields in 1984 and will likely reach an even broader audience through its distribution on the online streaming platform Netflix. Timothy Williams
Personal reflections on the conference – Dealing with the Past: Engaging in the Present Published: 6 February 2017 Image credits What does justice mean to the different victims of the Khmer Rouge? How can it be found outside of the courts? And can there be appropriate justice? Those are only some of the questions raised in the past days at the conference Dealing with the Past: Engaging in the Present. The leitmotif of the conference – how to deal with the past and how to make sure it will never happen again – has provided a link for discussions about genocide education, justice and the role of women in the context of the Cambodian genocide. From Monday 23rd January 2017 until Friday 27th January 2017 at META HOUSE Jonas Kramp
Forced Pregnancy During The Khmer Rouge Regime Published: 18 March 2016 During the last decade, there has been growing awareness of the issue of sexual and gender-based violence during the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) regime. Maria Lobato
Like Ghost Changes Body(A Study on the Impact of Forced Marriage under the Khmer Rouge Regime) Published: 12 November 2014 Nearly 40 years after the fall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) the forced marriages and enforced conjugal relations experienced by thousands of Cambodians continue to be little understood as a central part of the general atrocity. These marriages eliminated choice, were without consent, and took place within a context of severe coercion.
