By Erika Kinetz
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
Two Documentation Center of Cambodia staffers got their visas Tuesday to travel to the US and complete two-month internships at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington.
Dy Boty, a 25-year-old researcher at DC-Cam, wrote "A History of Democratic Kampuchea," which DC-Cam says is the first textbook on the Khmer Rouge regime written by a Cambodian. Cambodian historian David Chandler, among others, advised on the project.
DC-Cam asked Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Ministry of Education last month to approve the text for inclusion in the national high school curriculum, and it is currently under review by a special committee at the Council of Ministers, Dy Boty said.
"There's no result yet," he added. "Now they're busy with the elections."
Dy Boty will be an intern in the genocide education division of the museum, where he said he plans to begin work on a book about comparative genocide, drawing on events in Cambodia, Rwanda, Germany, the former Soviet Union and China.
Sayana Ser, 26, is currently DC-Cam's outreach coordinator for the Khmer Rouge tribunal. She has a master's degree in leisure, tourism, and environment from Wageningen University in the Netherlands and will be an intern in the museum's exhibition division.
Sayana Ser said that she hoped to help develop historical genocide sites in Cambodia, including Tuol Sleng.
The training is part of DC-Cam's capacity-building initiative, Youk Chhang, the director of DC-Cam, wrote in an email. After the tribunal concludes, DC-Cam aims to transform itself into a permanent museum and research collection.
Dy Boty, a 25-year-old researcher at DC-Cam, wrote "A History of Democratic Kampuchea," which DC-Cam says is the first textbook on the Khmer Rouge regime written by a Cambodian. Cambodian historian David Chandler, among others, advised on the project.
DC-Cam asked Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Ministry of Education last month to approve the text for inclusion in the national high school curriculum, and it is currently under review by a special committee at the Council of Ministers, Dy Boty said.
"There's no result yet," he added. "Now they're busy with the elections."
Dy Boty will be an intern in the genocide education division of the museum, where he said he plans to begin work on a book about comparative genocide, drawing on events in Cambodia, Rwanda, Germany, the former Soviet Union and China.
Sayana Ser, 26, is currently DC-Cam's outreach coordinator for the Khmer Rouge tribunal. She has a master's degree in leisure, tourism, and environment from Wageningen University in the Netherlands and will be an intern in the museum's exhibition division.
Sayana Ser said that she hoped to help develop historical genocide sites in Cambodia, including Tuol Sleng.
The training is part of DC-Cam's capacity-building initiative, Youk Chhang, the director of DC-Cam, wrote in an email. After the tribunal concludes, DC-Cam aims to transform itself into a permanent museum and research collection.
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