Cambodia Documentation Commission records
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Records include reports by David R. Hawk and the Commission on the conflict in Cambodia; annual reports of the Commission; translations of international conventions into Khmer; photographs and miscellaneous papers on "Cambodia Witness" photograph exhibit; "Khmer Rouge Prison Documents," photocopies of documents relating to political imprisonment, systematic torture, and extra-judicial execution selected from Khmer Rouge prison archives, in Khmer and English; "Registry of Confessions" (photocopy); and oversize proof sheets of photographs of prisoners and guards at the S-21 (Tuol Sleng) prison-execution facility in Phnom Penh.
Dates
- 1985-1990.
Creator
- Cambodia Documentation Commission (Organization)
- Hawk, David R. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
The Cambodia Documentation Commission is an association of Cambodian refugees, and human rights, legal, and Cambodia specialists. Associates of the Documentation Commission have conducted numerous research investigations in Cambodia and Thailand, analyzed phenomena of repression, translated Khmer language documents into English and international human rights declarations and conventions into Khmer, made human rights appeals to Cambodian political leaders and UN member states, made oral and written interventions at the UN Commission on Human Rights, testified to committees of the U.S. Congress, and monitored the Cambodia debates at the UN General Assembly and international conferences on Cambodia. The Director of the Documentation Commission is David R. Hawk, Associate of the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights.
Extent
3.6 cubic feet. (3.6 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Reports on conflict in Cambodia; annual reports of the Commission, photographs and miscellaneous papers on "Cambodia Witness" photograph exhibit, "Khmer Rouge Prison Documents," photocopies of documents from Khmer Rouge prison archives, and oversize proof sheets of photographs of prisoners and guards at the S-21 (Tuol Sleng) prison-execution facility in Phnom Penh..
Physical Description
Documents, photographs, microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Elaine Engst
- Date completed:
- December 20, 1991
- EAD encoding:
- Julia Lonnberg and Peter Martinez, August 2001
- Date modified:
- Kristen Reichenbach, January 2019
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Elaine Engst
- Date
- August 16, 2001
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu