The office will serve as a centre for research on the history of the
Khmer Rouge for both prospective teachers and students.
Over 40 years after the killings, on November 16, the United Nations convicted the
Khmer Rouge of genocide and two surviving
Khmer Rouge leaders, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, were sentenced to life in prison.
Between 1.7 and 2.2 million people, almost a quarter of the population, died during the 1975 to 1979 rule of the
Khmer Rouge.
However, despite the gravity of their crimes, and the decades that have passed, bringing these former top
Khmer Rouge cadres to justice was not an easy task.
The
Khmer Rouge ideology (under its leader, Paris-educated Pol Pot) was influenced by four interrelated principles: (1) total independence and self-reliance; (2) preservation of the dictatorship of the proletariat; (3) total and immediate economic revolution; and (4) complete transformation of
Khmer social values.
The
Khmer Rouge might have slaughtered the whole population had Vietnam, by now consolidated after America withdrew, not intervened militarily.
This book is a bold, expertly articulated study of the contentious, buried history of an historically situated minority within a rapidly changing, developing state--in this case the
Khmer people in Vietnam.
Surveys of dress depicted on
Khmer sculptures, from the 7th century onward, demonstrate developments in their styles.
It aims to improve the quality of
Khmer translations online, an executive from the company told a press on Friday.
This study, which investigates seven
Khmer communities located on the Vietnamese side of the border, is a brilliant treatise on the relationship between people, their land, and their historical cosmology.
By comparison, the ethnic
Khmer of southern Vietnam, or
Khmer Krom, have received relatively little scholarly attention, despite numbering over a million and inhabiting some of the most ecologically and politically sensitive areas of the country.
The prosecutors of a U.N.-backed court called Monday for life sentences for two former
Khmer Rouge leaders who are blamed for the deaths of nearly 2 million Cambodians in the late 1970s.
Hong Kong, Jan 17, 2013 - (ACN Newswire) -
Khmer Resources Investment Holding Group Co.
