In collaboration with the magazine "Searching for the Truth," initiated by DC-Cam, Cambodge Mag brings you a series of raw testimonies from those who lived through the Khmer Rouge regime. Today, the story of Heng Sokphanna's husband.

Born in 1958, the eldest child of a Cambodian farming family, Hang Nget was sixteen years old when the Khmer Rouge seized power in April 1975. Over four years, she lost her father, four brothers, and nearly everything that had constituted her life. Her testimony, collected in 2010 by TPO Cambodia and preserved in the DC-Cam archives in Phnom Penh, stands as one of the most shattering documents in the memory of the Cambodian genocide.

Sokha You Herodier did not live through the horror of the Khmer Rouge — but her mother did. By taking up the pen for the first time, she offers her the most beautiful tribute: that of memory.

In a high school in Sa-ang, Kandal province, dozens of students recently experienced an extraordinary learning activity. Gathered for an educational forum dedicated to the history of Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979), they attended a screening of the documentary First Witness — a powerful film that gives voice to survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime. A rare initiative, but more necessary than ever.

Le silence s’installe lentement dans la salle du Centre de documentation de Prey Veng. À l’extérieur, la vie suit son cours — le bruit lointain des motos, la chaleur dense de l’après-midi cambodgien — mais ici, le temps semble suspendu.

In Kampot province, a community center is working to mend the bodies and souls of those who survived the Khmer Rouge hell. Half a century after the genocide, the wounds remain — and the memory is more urgent than ever.

While the extent of women's involvement in the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge is poorly understood, researchers believe that it is greatly underestimated, if not ignored altogether.

After the Khmer Rouge regime seized power on April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge government created a new unit called “Unit 164,” led by Meas Mut (Ta Mok's son-in-law) to oversee the southwestern region. A survivor, Nhoeung Chroeung, recounts his experiences.

Prah Mat stated in his confession dated August 20, 1977 that he was instructed to escape the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime and then to make a...

The new generation of Cambodians has complex and varied views on the Khmer Rouge regime, reflecting a mixture of awareness, trauma and sometimes indifference shaped by their education and upbringing.

Youk Chhang: ‘Since I started working at the Cambodia Documentation Centre, journalists have asked me this question more than any other.’

Une fois que les Khmers rouges ont pris le contrôle des villes en 1975, de nombreuses exactions ont été commises en évacuant les populations

Pol Pot, born Saloth Sar on 19 May 1925 in the Cambodian province of Kompong Thom, remains one of the most infamous figures in history...

The "three days" promised turned into three years. Even though time has changed, my memories of the events that took place during that rice season in the 1970s decade have not changed with time.

On 17 April 1975, Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge, marking the end of the Cambodian civil war and the beginning of one of the darkest...

Several eyewitnesses, including foreign journalists and local residents, have provided photos and gripping accounts of the fall of Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took the city, marking a tragic turning point in the history of Cambodia.

In collaboration with the magazine Searching for the Truth, initiated by DCCAM, Cambodge Mag offers you a series of raw testimonies from those who lived through the Khmer Rouge regime. Today, the tragic story of parliamentarian Buth Choun, told by his daughter, Buth Chan Mearadey.

In an interview granted to the Documentation Center of Cambodia team, 65-year-old Keo Sam Art recounts her journey, from her entry into the revolution against the Lon Nol regime to being tasked with treating the wounded and burying the dead.

In the lush green hills of Veal Veng, in the Cardamom Mountains near the Thai border, the Khmer Rouge past lingers like a mist over the forest trails of Thmar Da and the streams of O’Plouk Damrei.

Kyōichi Sawada, a bold Japanese photographer, immortalized the horrors of the Vietnam War, earning the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1966. His life ended tragically in Cambodia in 1970, in an ambush that remains shrouded in mystery. This account explores his journey, his iconic images, and the shadows surrounding his brutal end.

Publié pour la première fois en 1985, Little Brother d'Allan Baillie est un roman pour enfants poignant qui explore avec délicatesse les réalités déchirantes de la vie sous le régime khmer rouge au Cambodge à travers les yeux d'un garçon de 11 ans nommé Muong Vithy.

The landscape of Stung Treng province in northern Cambodia, peaceful with its converging rivers and lush vegetation, defies imagination when compared to the darkness that once enveloped it.

In 1978, after sharing a meal with Khmer Rouge officials, Rem saw with her own eyes soldiers get out of a vehicle and take her husband, Mam Hoeb, into custody. Powerless, she could only cry. According to the archives of the Cambodia Documentation Center, Mam Hoeb was later confirmed to have been detained at the S-21 security center.

On May 20, 2024; the Documentation Center of Cambodia organized the first conference on "Future of Cambodia without Genocide, during which Samdech Moha Bovor Thipadei Hun Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, stated that “All government institutions, both military and civilian, must support the work of genocide education for future generations.