February 10, 2010, Villagers Visiting at Toul Sleng
         
 

Between February 10-13, 2010, DC-Cam invites 100 villagers from Preah Net Preah commune in Banteay Meanchey province, Sa-Ang Phnom commune in Kandal province and Svay Chek commune in Svay Rieng province to Phnom Penh. This invitation is a part of DC-Cam’s Living Documents project intending to provide a forum for which victims of the Khmer Rouge atrocities learn about the Khmer Rouge tribunal. Since 2006, DC-Cam invited about 10,000 villagers, community leaders and members of the Cham Muslim minority to attend the ECCC hearings and receive basic training on ECCC’s jurisdiction, procedures and biographies of persons charged by the court. The selection of the visitors is based on the relevance of their home villages and community to the Khmer Rouge history and their connection with the particular Khmer Rouge leaders. After the information session in the morning, the villagers visited Tuol Sleng prison and Cheung Ek killing fields where prisoners from this prison were executed. The pictures below show villagers viewing Tuol Sleng.