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"It's hard to believe, because I don't understand how Cambodians can kill each other. We are all good people and we have feelings. Why would they kill each other?"
ICfC brought a group of villagers from Svay Rieng province to visit the Tuol Sleng Genocide museum in Phnom Penh and the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial site in September 2007. |
Listen to NPR's On the Media 7 minute documentary on the Cambodian youth generation's astounding gap in the knowledge of their own recent history. They are taught little to nothing about the Pol Pot's regime and find it difficult to believe the stories their parents and grandparents tell them about surviving those times. The documentary features, among others, our Cambodian colleague Vichhra Muoyly and her work for the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Outreach Program before she joined ICfC in March 2007. ICfC works to overcome this knowledge gap and open spaces for dialogue about the past within and between communities in order to achieve some sense of justice and fairness. Vichhra is among the skilled ICfC facilitators that lead these dialogues in the remote rural areas of Cambodia today. |
Description of the program from On the Media website: You Must Remember ThisThis week's arrest of the Khmer Rouge's second-in-command seems like an opportunity for Cambodians to reconcile with the past. But, as Megan Williams reports, a skeptical generation has come of age - too young to remember and unwilling to believe - the horrors of the Communist regime. |
