DC Cam, Anlong Veng women’s roles in KR and peace building

A brand new study published by the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), with a focus on Oddar Meanchey’s Anlong Veng district, explores the crucial roles of Cambodian women in the revolution and rebuilding of society, but also reveals the impact on those women in the post-genocidal era.

Located in Oddar Meanchey province’s Dangrek Mountains area, Anlong Veng was known as the last stronghold of the Khmer Rouge to come under government control in 1998 and the final resting place of Saloth Sar, aka Pol Pot, the former prime minister and Brother Number One in the genocidal Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979). It has been estimated that over 35% of the population in the district, both male and female, were former Khmer Rouge soldiers.

Recently published by DC-Cam, the report entitled Women in Anlong Veng studies the daily life and work assignments taken up by women in Anlong Veng in the course of Khmer Rouge’s guerrilla warfare between 1979 and 1998. The study is conducted based on interviews with numerous Khmer Rouge survivors.

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