A meeting was held yesterday at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum to review a digitisation project aiming to preserve about 400,000 records from Pol Pot’s brutal regime. The meeting was attended by Unesco representative Anne Lemaistre, Culture and Fine Arts Minister Phoeurng Sakona, NGO staffers and victims of the Khmer Rouge.

 

Museum director Chhay Visoth said that museum staffers have preserved thousands of prisoner records since the project began earlier this year. “Since we implemented this project in January, the museum has worked on 30 percent out of about 400,000 pages of documents on prisoners here at Tuol Sleng,” Mr Visoth said.

 

He added that the project is supported by the Korea International Cooperation Agency through Unesco and will conclude at the end of next year. “When we are done with copying all of the documents, we will make them public for everyone to see on our website,” Mr Visoth said. “The documents are very important for research.”

 

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