“We Were Constantly Terrified”: Vivid Testimony Reveals Details of Life under the Khmer Rouge

  • by Doreen Chen, Senior Consultant, Destination Justice, and LLM, Columbia Law School
  • — 6 Nov, 2012

On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) heard detailed testimony from one of the oldest people to testify in the trial to date: 84- year-old civil party Mom Sam Oeun, a former French professor and a high school acquaintance of Saloth Sar alias Pol Pot and defendant Ieng Sary…

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