{"id":561,"date":"2018-05-21T23:34:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freerohingyacoalition.org\/en\/?page_id=561"},"modified":"2018-05-27T00:58:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T00:58:06","slug":"youk-chhang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freerohingyacoalition.org\/en\/youk-chhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Youk Chhang"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Youk Chhang<\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\nYouk Chhang is the Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), founder of Sleuk Rith Institute and a survivor of the Khmer Rouge\u2019s \u201ckilling fields.\u201d\r\n\r\nHe was born in 1961 and raised in Phnom Penh. At age 15, laboring under Khmer Rouge rule, he was arrested for picking up mushrooms in the rice fields to feed his pregnant sister. He was tortured publicly before more than a hundred villagers before being dispatched to an adult prison without trial. He recalls, \u201cMonths later, when I ran out of lies to tell to save my life, an older prisoner begged the prison chief to release me. The prison chief agreed, but I later learned that the older prisoner was killed in exchange for my freedom. I lived, and he died. I do not remember his name but have been searching for his surviving relatives to pay respect to them for what he did for me. I hope someday I will find them.\u201d\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\nChhang later escaped the Khmer Rouge killing fields, moving the United States as a refugee, but his experience of Khmer Rouge terror and loss of loved ones led him to a lifelong commitment to promote memory and justice in Cambodia. He returned to Cambodia in the 1990s to manage human rights and democracy training programs for the U.S.-based International Republican Institute and assist the Electoral Component of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).\r\n\r\nChhang became DC-Cam\u2019s leader in 1995, when the Center was founded as a field office of Yale University\u2019s Cambodian Genocide Program to conduct research, training and documentation related to the Khmer Rouge regime. He continued to run the Center after its 1997 inception as an independent Cambodian non-governmental organization. Among many contributions to truth and justice, he has testified before the Khmer Rouge tribunal as a living witness to genocide, developed a nationwide genocide education program with strong grassroots support, and established the Anlong Veng Peace Center to facilitate research and foster reconciliation. He currently leads DC-Cam\u2019s development of the Sleuk Rith Institute, a permanent hub for genocide studies in Asia based in Phnom Penh, and works to advance DC-Cam\u2019s vision of a Legacy of Justice, Legacy of Memory and Education, and Legacy of Healing.\r\n\r\nChhang has authored several articles and book chapters on justice and reconciliation and co-edited the book Cambodia\u2019s Hidden Scars: Trauma Psychology in the Wake of the Khmer Rouge (2011). He is the executive producer of A River Changes Course (2012), a documentary lm about Cambodia\u2019s changing social, economic, and environmental landscape that won the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for documentaries in 2013 and other awards. He also produced the lm Don\u2019t Think I\u2019ve Forgotten: Cambodia\u2019s Lost Rock and Roll (2014), which illuminates the culture that preceded and survived the country\u2019s genocide.\r\n\r\nHe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Genocide, Con ict Resolution, and Human Rights at Rutgers University-Newark. He was a member of the eminent persons group who founded the Institute for International Criminal Investigations in The Hague in 2003. In 2000, he received the Truman-Reagan Freedom Award from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, DC. He was named one of TIME magazine\u2019s \u201c60 Asian heroes\u201d in 2006 and one of the \u201cTime 100\u201d most influential people in the world in 2007 for his stand against impunity in Cambodia and elsewhere. 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