Kodaim Ear, a survivor of the genocide, resolves to revisit the land of his childhood, to re-trace his terrifying journey to freedom. Along with Kodaim's personal story, this compelling documentary traces the history of Cambodia from the reign of King Sihanouk, to his overthrow, with American support, by Lon Nol, a right wing former police chief. This corrupt regime was toppled by the insurgent Khmer Rouge and the country spiraled downward into mayhem and genocide. YOU MUST LOGIN TO VIEW OFF CAMPUS.
Includes collection of full-text documents, video, and audio files that provide documentation and analysis of the Cambodian genocide.
Includes more than 10,400 pages of archival materials; over 2,300 published monographs totaling more than 37,000 pages; 241 complete videos; more than 3,000 pages of reports, journal articles, and other full-text items; more than 1,000 images (most from The Getty); and nearly 700 links to vetted, important external websites.
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive makes available over 54,000 video testimonies of Holocaust and genocide survivors, including Armenian, Cambodian, and Rwandan survivors.
The Visual History Archive contains 55,000 audiovisual interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. Interviewees are primarily Jewish survivors, though the archive also includes interviews with gay/lesbian, Jehovah's Witness, and Roma and Sinta (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of eugenics policies, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, liberators, and war crimes trial participants.
Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the following:
• 1915 Armenian Genocide
• 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China
• Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979
• Guatemalan Genocide of the early 1980s
• 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
• Ongoing conflict in the Central African Republic
• Contemporary acts of violence against Jews
The interviews were conducted in 62 different countries and in 41 languages and comprise the most extensive resource of its type. Each interview is fully indexed, thus allowing the viewer to search using either the assigned index terms or a free-text search. Additionally, transcripts are provided for many of the testimonies.
Special courts were created in Cambodia "to try serious crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge regime 1975 - 1979." Finds news articles, videos, photos, a newsletter, and legal documents related to the trials.
Find information and history of the genocide as well as several databases containing bibliographic (articles), biographic, geographic, and photographic resources.
The official website of the museum that now occupies the former Security Prison S-21 and execution center. The museum is dedicated to educate visitors about the genocide, honor the victims, and provide access to information, artifacts, documents, and especially the photographs relating to the genocide.
The horrific torture and execution of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1970s is one of the century's major human disasters. David Chandler, a world-renowned historian of Cambodia, examines the Khmer Rouge phenomenon by focusing on one of its key institutions, the secret prison outside Phnom Penh known by the code name S-21.
Voices from S-21 by