09 Japanese students and a professor from Chuo University, Japan visited to the ECCC Resource Centre on 22 February 2024 to learn about ECCC's mission and activities in the residual phase. On that occasion, ECCC officials welcomed and presented to group about the achievements of the ECCC obtained from the trials, the ECCC residual works; the victims' participation in the ECCC, the ECCC Resource Centre, the preserving and managing of the ECCC Archive case files.
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…