Cambodia releases first ever textbook on Pol Pot era

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Updated May 25, 2009 21:02:05

Cambodian education officials have unveiled the country's first textbook on Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime. It comes as Comrade Duch, the former head of the notorious S21 prison, stands trial for crimes against humanity at the UN-Cambodian tribunal. Many students in Cambodia know very little about what happened there.

Presenter: Robert Carmichael, Phnom Penh
Speakers: Chea Vandeth, final year school student; Ton Sa Im, under-secretary of state, Cambodian ministry of education; Youk Chhang, director, Documentation Centre of Cambodia

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