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The second day of Nou’s workshop (noon to 5PM) is dedicated to the filing of the complaints. Nou’s call for volunteers to help her review the applicants’ testimony (and “interview” them to get the most detailed and accurate story) was heard. In addition to the members of CARHAD organization that have helped set up the weekend, 3 people are there to help Nou on the interviews on that day: two lawyers, Audrey Redmond (pictured below left), Julie Sheker, and a member from the community: Thilda Outhuok (pictured above left).
Pictured above: Leakhena Nou, founder of ASRIC (the Applied Social Research Institute of Cambodia) and organizer of the workshop.
At the end of the afternoon on this second day, Nou could add 12 more stories, testimonies and complaints to be addressed later to the ECCC ("Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia", the official term for the Khmer Rouge trial). A drop of water in the ocean of pain and sufferings that still overwhelms so many Cambodian. But Nou’s doing what she’s convinced she has to do, step by step, on the West Coast, on the East Coast, and she has not stopped yet…
Vannary Tan (pictured above), 45 - a mother of two and a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime - is filing a complaint for the ECCC ("Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia", the official term for the Khmer Rouge trial). Behind her stands Pearak Tan, 10, one of her sons.
Julie M. Sheker (pictured above right), a volunteer lawyer for ASRIC, helping Cambodian natives for the filing of their complaint for the ECCC ("Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia", the official term for the Khmer Rouge trial).
