On 05 October 2023, His Excellency Tony Kranh, ECCC Acting Director of Administration, Mr. Knut Rosandhaug, Deputy Director of Administration, His Excellency Thaung Socheat, Chief of Budget and Finance and Senior Administrative Officer, and Mr. Hang Vannak, Chief of Victims Support Section welcomed delegations from U.S. Embassy at the ECCC premise where a fruitful discussion was held on a broad range of topics including residual functions and engagement on the ECCC archive preservation.
I sat under the pagoda, moved by the monks’ chanting, which was accompanied by a chorus of over forty attendees.
A woman sitting next to me in a dance performance, I realize, is crying. It is hard to tell at first because she holds her body so still but tears pour down her weathered face.
The suit jacket that Chhun Phanapha is wearing is such a bright shade of pink that it seems to be glowing. It is the first thing you notice about her when you walk in the room.
The silence in the pagoda is almost deafening. Under a clutch of trees a group of children are playing but they seem to make only a little more noise than the long lengths of tangerine fabric hanging to dry in the breeze, and they disappear soon…