Memory of Atrocities Project

The Memories of Atrocities Project (MAP) is an effort to allow survivors of atrocity crimes to tell their stories. Through the therapeutic storytelling process, interviewees reflect back on their experiences, sometimes told here for the first time, and weave their memories together into a coherent narrative. MAP then distributes those stories to as broad a viewership as possible via the Internet in order both to provide a global educational resource and to put a human face on the atrocity crimes perpetrated throughout the world. MAP:Cambodia is the beginning of this process.

Short Stories

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Stories of Cambodia by Cindy Chan

Cindy Chan, a Creative Communications student in Winnipeg, documents the stories of her parents, survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime now living in Canada, in the documentary Stories of Cambodia.

http://youtu.be/TvsSWsFHGQQ

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Malis Cheap on Life in the Labor Camps (English)

In this excerpt, Cheap talks about life in the Khmer Rouge labor camps. From the oral history interview recorded on April 27, 2011 at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago. In English.

http://vimeo.com/25202350

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Malis Cheap on the Difficult Journey to Thailand (English)

In this excerpt, Cheap tells the story of leading her family on the trek from Cambodia to a camp in Thailand in an attempt to avoid starvation. From the oral history interview recorded on April 27, 2011 at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago. In English.

http://vimeo.com/26289798

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Malis Cheap on Starvation and Loss (English)

In this excerpt, Cheap tells the story of losing her children and husband and then walking back to her mother's village. From the oral history interview recorded on April 27, 2011 at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago. In English.

http://vimeo.com/25194243

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Marin Sok on Life as a Refugee in Thailand (English)

In this excerpt, Sok tells the story of his family's precarious existence as refugees in Thailand before their admission into UNHCR's Khao-I-Dang Holding Center. From the oral history interview recorded on April 28, 2011 at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago. In English.

http://vimeo.com/26347168

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Marin Sok on Forced Migration and Loss (English)

In this excerpt, Sok tells the story of being forced from his home village into the Battambang countryside and having to leave the family dog behind. From the oral history interview recorded on April 28, 2011 at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago. In English.

http://vimeo.com/26120965

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Marin Sok on Labor Camps (English)

In this excerpt, Sok talks about relocating within the countryside, being taken with his brother to work in a labor camp, and performing subversive activities both inside and outside of the camp. From the oral history interview recorded on April 28, 2011 at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago. In English.

http://vimeo.com/26280496

Archive of Full Interviews

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Oral History Interview of Sareth Bin (Khmer)

Oral History Interview of Sareth Bin on April 28, 2011 at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago. Bin talks about her life before, during, and after the Khmer Rouge era. In Khmer.

http://vimeo.com/25251773

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Oral History Interview of Malis Cheap (English)

Oral history interview of Malis Cheap on April 27, 2011 at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago. Cheap talks about her life before, during, and after the Khmer Rouge era. In English.

http://vimeo.com/25261041

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Oral History Interview of Soth Has (Khmer)

Oral History Interview of Sareth Bin on April 28, 2011 at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago. Bin talks about her life before, during, and after the Khmer Rouge era. In Khmer.

http://vimeo.com/25259848

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Oral History Interview of Leon Lim (English)

Oral history interview of Leon Lim on July 18, 2011 at Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago, IL. Lim talks about his life before, during, and after the Khmer Rouge era, including his continuing efforts to raise awareness of atrocity crimes. In English.

http://vimeo.com/27921564

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Oral History Interview of Marin Sok (English)

Oral history interview of Marin Sok on April 28, 2011 at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago. Sok talks about his life before, during, and after the Khmer Rouge era. In English.

http://vimeo.com/25172856

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Oral History Interview of Dina Tep (Khmer)

Oral History Interview of Dina Tep on April 27, 2011 at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago. Tep talks about her life before, during, and after the Khmer Rouge era. In Khmer.

http://vimeo.com/25556626