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LOWELL SUN

Photo: Cindy Yamanaka, OC Register

Photo: Stephane Janin

ASRIC needs your support to complete testimony collection in the remaining US cities.  Please donate or help us to raise funds.  Donations can be made on our website through Paypal or by emailing klong@renewkhmer.org for more information. 

Your contribution is tax-deductible and is very important to the success of this project.  Thank you for helping to move Cambodia forward [...]

Cambodians in the US Converge To Tell KR Stories

Photo By Vanta El

By Julia Wallace
The Cambodia Daily October 13, 2009

 “My mother was killed, my brothers, my sisters were killed.”

“They said we all had to go to the rice fields, monks as well as ordinary people…. People were afraid.”

“I don’t trust anymore. Please, I know that [...]

Photo By Vanta El

Friday and Saturday, November 13-14, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Pro-Act, 444 North 3rd St. Suite 307, Philadelphia, Pa 19123 

   
Friday, November 6, 2009, 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Presentations about ASRIC’s work and the on-going trials at the ECCC
Saturday and Sunday, November 7-8, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 6 p.m.
ASRIC Staff will help survivors complete Victim Information Forms for submission to the ECCC
Locations:
FRIDAY: Middlesex Community College Assembly Room, 50 Kearney Square, Lowell, MA

SATURDAY/SUNDAY: Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association, 120 Cross [...]

Sophany Bay (Photo by Patrick Tehan/Mercury News)

Khmer Rouge victim from San Jose was saved by her children
By Joe Rodriguez
Mercury News October 23, 2009

The most surprising thing about Sophany Bay is how much at peace she looks. The nightmares haven’t tortured her delicate face or turned her hands shaky. Dressed in a purple blazer and [...]

The Victims Unit has informed us of a change in the filing deadline.  The new deadline is 15 days after the judicial investigation concludes, which is now expected to be at the end of 2009, not mid-November.  ASRIC will continue to help survivors interested in filing through this period.

To download the new message from the Victims Unit, please [...]

Photo: Damian Dovarganes AP News

 
By Gillian Flaccus
The Associated Press September 25, 2009

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The tiny Cambodian woman trembled slightly and stared blankly ahead as she told the story that has haunted her for half a lifetime: her parents and brother died in Khmer Rouge labor camps. Her baby perished in a [...]