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Cambodia Documentation Commission records

 Collection
Identifier: 4499

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

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..

RELATED MATERIAL

Copy of "Khmer Rouge Prison Documents from the S-21 (Tuol Sleng) extermination center in Phnom Penh," available in the Echols Collection at Cornell.

See also: Guide to the Tuol Sleng Confessions and Photographs (collection #4883)

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

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)