Tuesday, 11 August 2009
UNPO

Phnom Penh will rebuild a Reconciliation Memorial in the name of past victims of the Khmer Rouge, including 2,000 Khmer Krom. Below is an article published by The Phnom Penh Post :

Thirty years after the Khmer Rouge executed thousands of Cambodians on a sugarcane field in Pursat, the Documentation Centre of Cambodia [DC-Cam] announced that a new memorial stupa will be built by the community with its assistance.

DC-Cam members and about 500 villagers from Pursat's Bakan district gathered next to that same field last Sunday, DC-Cam director Youk Chhang said, adding that it was then that he decided to help build a memorial to replace one that had rotted away.

On his return to Phnom Penh, he said he contacted Columbia University's architecture school for assistance.