Int'l Justice Clinic in Phnom Penh

Over the course of the next several days, we’re going to be reporting on a trip that three students from the International Justice Clinic and I are taking in Cambodia.  (We arrived about an hour ago.)  For the past several months, the Clinic – working with Applied Social Research of Cambodia (ASRIC), an organization founded by Dr. Leakhena Nou of California State University at Long Beach – has been helping victims of the Khmer Rouge tell their stories for the purposes of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (which we call the ECCC but is also known colloquially as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal).  We’re here to bring nearly two hundred of those stories – detailed in the ECCC’s Victim Information Forms, which we and others collected throughout the Cambodian diaspora community in the United States – to the Victims Unit of the ECCC.  We’ll also be meeting with court officials, defense lawyers, and other human rights professionals in Phnom Penh throughout our week. Over the course of the week, we’ll talk about what we’re doing and, more importantly, what we’re learning here.  So stay tuned!