Its is July 2nd . We had breakfast and headed to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia(ECCC) more comonly referred to as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal . This is a special Cambodian court set up witht he inter ational support through he United Nationsto prosecute two categoriesof alleged perpetrators for alleged crimes commited between 17 Apil 1975 amd 6 January 1979. During that time Cambodia was ruled by the Democratic Kampuchea,that was the name of the goverment of Cambodia under Khmer Rouge. We went to the hearing of case 002/01.This case was for crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.After the hearing this case we went into a conference room and met with representatives from Prosecution, Defense, and Civil parties.After this we went to go eat lunch near the Choeung Ek Center for Genocide Crimes (killing field). We then walked to the killing site and looked around and heard about specific places at the site. Children were held by their feet and were hit on the tree until their skulls were broken . After this we visited the Toul Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes.It was a formal high school that served as a security prison for Khmer Rouge cadres accused of being traitors to the Khmer Rouge regime . Believed that 14K to 17K prisoners perished there. After visiting the museum we headed to the hotel and got ready for the formal welcome dinner at a nearby hotel.As we got back from dinner we were assigned to interview one student a nigh reflcting on the events that occured that day and by the end of this trip we should have interviewed each student.
I learned so much about the Cambodian history and wars today.
