Cambodia has received 20 Khmer Rouge documentary films from Vietnam, which will be used as evidence against the regime at the trial of top Khmer leaders.
Chhang Youk, director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, says the films are in English and Khmer, and were mostly made by Vietnamese soldiers between 1973 and 1982.
He says they cover several aspects of the regime of interest to the trial, including conditions for children, the notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh, treatment of foreigners, and killings Vietnamese citizens in Vietnam's Tai Ninh Province.
Chhang Youk told reporters that Vietnam is the first ASEAN country to provide key documents ahead of the trials of jailed Khmer leaders, which Cambodia is preparing to open early next year.
Five Khmer Rouge leaders are being held in a pretrial detention center at the United Nations-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
''The films are parts of our history and they are considered as hard evidence besides the reading texts," Chhang Youk said.
"These films will help the younger generation to a better understanding of our history,'' he added.
He says while Vietnam has cooperated with his center since 1998, China and Thailand have failed to do so even though he says they may have similar films.
Chhang Youk, director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, says the films are in English and Khmer, and were mostly made by Vietnamese soldiers between 1973 and 1982.
He says they cover several aspects of the regime of interest to the trial, including conditions for children, the notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh, treatment of foreigners, and killings Vietnamese citizens in Vietnam's Tai Ninh Province.
Chhang Youk told reporters that Vietnam is the first ASEAN country to provide key documents ahead of the trials of jailed Khmer leaders, which Cambodia is preparing to open early next year.
Five Khmer Rouge leaders are being held in a pretrial detention center at the United Nations-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
''The films are parts of our history and they are considered as hard evidence besides the reading texts," Chhang Youk said.
"These films will help the younger generation to a better understanding of our history,'' he added.
He says while Vietnam has cooperated with his center since 1998, China and Thailand have failed to do so even though he says they may have similar films.
7 comments:
Does Vietnam have films on atrocity committed by Khmer Rouge military commanders and cadres like Hun Sen, Chea Sim, and Heng Samrin when they entered Vietnam and killing innocent civilian Vietnamese??
Khmer Republican
be wary, cambodia, this is one of the viets tricks. they want cambodian people and nation to feel like they owed vietnam something in return for their good trickery gesture. so, be very wary, cambodia! remember, the advise, trust, but verify from president ronald reagon!
no no gratitude to viets at the expense of cambodia! god bless cambodia.
HANOI, wanted khmer people to kill each other again, and this is HANOI new strategy folks!
koun khmer Germany..
Youk Chhang you should consider carefully of using the doc film from vietnam as evidence in the KR trial. VN is the culprit behind the curtain in the KR era as well.
I heard that Chhang Youk's wife is a youn's lady?
this is youn look down on Khmer people,viet thought that Khmer are stupid from the top to the bottom that's why viet can do what they want.Viet is the one who created,engineered and secretly filming he Khmer nation genocide from 1970-1979 and they created the skirmish war along the border for their pretext to bring it's armies inside Cambodia to install a puppet government in order to weakening the Khmer national strength and in a long period of time viet will swallow Cambodia without using the bullet like Champa and Kampuchea Krom(presently
southvietnam.vietnam is the dangerous hyenas for the south east Asia region.
Brother Youk Chhang please careful with this new tricks,hyenas can destroy our chicken in just a blink of eyes if we did not careful.
12:17 is right!
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