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| Human sculls are displayed in the stupa of Choeung Ek, a former Khmer Rouge "killing field" dotted with mass graves about nine miles (15 kilometers) south of Phnom Penh. (Photo: AP) |
Monday, 02 July 2012
Men Kimseng, VOA Khmer | Washington, DC
“We have to educate our younger generation as to why such crimes took place.”
Genocide experts from around the world are meeting in Austria this week to discuss ways to better educate the public and prevent atrocity crimes in the future.
The symposium, called “Learning from the Past: Global Perspectives on Holocaust Education,” ends Monday.
Organizers say that teaching the history of the Holocaust can prevent racism, ethnic conflict and genocide.
Ser Sayana, a researcher for the Documentation Center of Cambodia who is attending the symposium, told VOA Khmer Friday that Cambodia has a lot of input to offer from its own experiences.
This is particularly true with its research into Khmer Rouge atrocities and efforts to incorporate that history into school curriculum, she said.
Cambodians still have many questions about the Khmer Rouge and “why Khmer killed Khmer,” she said.
“We have to educate our younger generation as to why such crimes took place,” she said.
2 comments:
of course, it is good to know and educated about our khmer history. it is stupid and selfish and evil to keep knowledge from cambodian people and citizens, etc. why would anyone do such thing?
if people are eager to learn, let them and learn and share knowledge and educate them well, really! god bless cambodia and all khmer people and citizens.
The WORLD III will come soon.
Why ?
There are 7 billion people in the
world.They need food to eat,clothes
to wear,shelters to live in,and
good things to use.
Some countries will kill each other
just for foods.
Why half million Khmer people
leaving Cambodia for what reasons?
Do they have enough money support
themselves?
The !4 million Khmer people will
move out of Cambodia;now Cambodia
has 6,000,000 Vietnamese immigrants.They will move in a
very single day.
A lot of Khmer people are ignoring
what happening in Cambodia.
They are greedy money and high ranks in offices.
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