First Textbook on Khmer Rouge Period

Cambodia unveiled its first textbook on the 'Killing Fields' genocide on Thursday to raise awareness among those too young to remember the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge era in which 1.7 million people died.

For the first time in Cambodia's history, the genocide will be taught in high school,' said Youk Chhang, director of the US-funded Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam), which has documented Khmer Rouge atrocities.

-AFP

Macabre ceremony to mark annual day of rememberance

Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema is to speak during the morning ceremony, and as part of a yearly tradition, performers will re-enact some of the methods used by cadres to execute and torture overworked prisoners.

-Phnom Penh Post

Doubts cast over veracity of ECCC personnel audits, observers say

Lawyers and court monitors maintain that reviews of UN-backed tribunal's human resources practices ‘not designed' to unearth evidence of kickback scheme at the centre of graft row.

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KR trial resumes with Duch admitting to forged confessions

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav told Cambodia's war crimes court Monday that he was forced to forge "enemy" confessions because of a power struggle between two of the regime's top leaders, as the trial of the ex-jailer resumed following a two-week recess. http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2009051925921/National-news/KR-trial-resumes-with-Duch-admitting-to-forged-confessions.html