Connecting the Broken Pieces after the Cambodian Genocide: Legacy as Memory of a Nation

UCBerkeleyEvents — April 23, 2010 — UC Berkeley-UCLA Distinguished Visitor from Southeast Asia

Youk Chhang, Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia

As Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), Youk Chhang leads Cambodian efforts to collect and organize data on the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge period.

The Documentation Center of Cambodia was founded shortly after the U.S. Congress passed the Cambodian Genocide Justice Act in 1994. With this legislation, the Office of Cambodian Genocide Investigation in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs was established, which then provided a grant to Yale University's Cambodian Genocide Program (CGP) to conduct research, training and documentation relating to the Khmer Rouge regime.