Victim Participation Project (VPA)

 

   
  Villagers gather for meeting to discuss the Renakse petitions cataloguing the crimes of Pol Pot, 1982. Source: Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives.  
         

 

The Documentation Center of Cambodia aims to assist at least 10,000 victims of Democratic Kampuchea in filing victim participation requests (either criminal complaints or civil party applications) with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia during 2008. We view this activity as helping ordinary Cambodians to participate in the process of bringing the leaders of Democratic Kampuchea to a formal legal accounting, and equally important, as reactivating the informal "truth commission" that was begun during the early 1980s with the signing of the Renakse petitions (see Renakse petitions report by Amy Gordon for more information)

 

 

  § Background Materials on Victim Participation  
    · Complaint Form and Practice Direction  
    · Practice Direction on Protective Measures  
    · Statement by the Victim Unit  
    · Decision on Civil Party Participation  
    · DC-Cam Amicus Curiae Brief on Civil Party Participation  
    · ICC Decision on Common Legal Representation for Victims  
  § Background to VPA Project  
    · Description  
    · Project Design Evaluation  
    · Article on the Victim Participation Project  
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Victim Participation Reform

 
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Public Comment on Proposed Changes to Civil Party Participation  before the ECCC

 
    · Victims Once Again? Civil Party Participation Before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia  
  § Explanatory Materials  
    · DC-Cam's Victim Participation Information Sheet  
    · DC-Cam Guidance Sheet on Completing the Victim Information Form  
  § Background to the Renakse Petitions  
    · The Renakse Petition: Background and Suggestion for Future Use  
    · The Renakse Petition: The History of the Renakse Petitions  
    · The Renakse Petition: Summary  
  § Project Achievements  
    · List of Victim Information Forms Collected by DC-Cam  
    · DC-Cam Assistance (to Cham Muslim Community)  
    · Victim Participation Project Visit to Kampot Province  
    · Victims Still Waiting to Hear from Tribunal-Response Will Come  
    · ECCC Press Statement: OCP-VU Statement on Status of Victims Complaints  
    · Victim Participation Project Visit to Kampong Thom Province  
    · Victim Participation Project Visit to the Eastern Zone, Prey Veng Province  
    · Victim Participation Project Visit to Pursat Province  
    · Civil Party’s Repeated Attempts to Address Bench and Poor Management of
Proceedings Force Worrying Precedent for Victim Participation Before the ECCC
 
    · Victim Participation Project Visit to Siem Reap Province  

 

 

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Civil Party Meeting 16-18 December

 

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Victims’ Reactions to Duch's Apology: Is Forgiveness Possible?

 
    · KAMPONG CHHNANG: A Visit to the Khmer Rouge's Western Zone  

 

 

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Delivery of Court Notification Letters to Complainants in Kampong Thom Province

 

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Delivery of Court Notification Letters to Survivors in Takeo Province 3-12 March 2010

 

 

 

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Delivery of Court Notification Letters to Survivors in Kampong Thom and Siem Reap May 2010

 

    · Delivery of Court Notification Letters to Survivors in Pursat June 2010  
    · Victim Participation Project Delivery of Notification Letters in Kampot and Kep 17–26 September 2010  
    · Victim Participation Project: A Field Trip to Kampong Cham, Prey Veng, and Svay Rieng Province  
    · A Rreport on Attendance of Case 001 Civil Parties in Duch Appeals Hearings 28 – 30 March 2011  
    · A Field Trip Report to Kampong Chhnang Province 3-8 MAY 2011  
    · Tribunal Revisits History: A Report on Initial Hearing of Case 002
27 - 30 June 2011
 
    · Letter of Gratitude from Civil Party Hav Sophea  
    · Are the Accused in Case 002 Legally Fit to Stand Trial?  
    · Confronting the Past through the lens of Justice  
  § Other Materials  
    · VPA Summary  
    · Presentation for CHRAC Workshop on Complaints Procedures  
    · A Public Survey on Additional Prosecution by Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) -- The Khmer Rouge Tribunal  
    · Reparation Measures for Victims  
  § Photo Gallery  
  § Victims Stories (MP3)  
  § Links  
   

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ECCC Victims Unit  
  § List of VPA Interview  
  § List of VPA Assisted Civil Parties and/or Complainants  
  § A publication: When The Criminal Laughs by Chy Terith  
  2017 New Approach
Legal & Health Services for 1750 Genocide Survivors
 
  Victims Participants. Legal & Health Services For 1750 Genocide Survivors.  

 

Contact:  

Kim Sovanndany
Coordinator

 

           
        Dr. Demy Reyes
Oncologist