15 students from the Department of History of the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) visits Anlong Veng district's Oddar Meanchey province to interview villagers, 80% of them are Khmer Rouge's soldiers, about their experiences during the Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979).
The two-day study tour aims to give primary research and interview skills in collecting raw data for their research topics.
Our center's tour guides bring them to 14 historical sites of the Khmer Rouge's last stronghold and narrate them each site stories and events. The Peace Tour Study brings the history alive by exposing students to physical locations and evidence from the past.
Students are grouped into three. Each group of five interviewed two to three villagers randomly. To make a short video, each group has a camera operator, note-taker, interviewer, sound person, and production assistant. They had a one-hour session of video training before the shooting by the Documentation Center of Cambodia's staff.
Text and photos by
San Bunsim
Documentation Center of Cambodia
8-11 March 2020
Mass Communication Officer
Truthbunsim.s@dccam.org