New UN exhibition reflects dark side of Cambodian history

Pictures of Ly Yousib and Ly Smael that their mother, Kong Sarifas, kept with her are displayed at the exhibition. - DC-CAM

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): The UN Department of Global Communications – alongside the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect – are launching a New York exhibition that aims to remind viewers that no country is immune from the risks of genocide and related atrocities.

Stories of Survival and Remembrance – A Call to Action for Genocide Prevention features the reflections of survivors of four major atrocities including the Holocaust; the genocide and related atrocities in Cambodia; the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda; and the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.