February 5, 2010, Breaking the Silence in Tram Kak
         
 

DC-Cam showed a performance called “Breaking the Silence” to an audience in Takeo province. The performance was made on the former site of Krang Ta Chan prison in Tram Kak district. During the Khmer Rouge period this prison was part of the Southwest Zone’s security apparatus to weed out those people deemed by the Khmer Rouge as opposing the revolution. According to survivors, up to 10,000 people were detained, tortured and executed at this prison. Today, on the ground of this prison, there is a memorial which housed a few hundred skulls. At the end of the performance, attendees asked questions and shared their personal experience.