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After California, Oregon, Virginia, Maryland, and a week before Pennsylvania, non profit ASRIC (Applied Social Research Institute of Cambodia) organized in the building of the CMAA (Cambodian Mutual Assistance Assistance) in Lowell, Massachusetts from Nov. 6th to 8th 2009 another workshop to help the survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime share their stories, file a complaint for the trial now in process in Phnom Penh, possibly have their voice be heard.
ASRIC is guided by its mission to seek social peace and health for Cambodians who have been directly and indirectly affected by the Khmer Rouge regime, and still suffering from it, 30 years after the collapse of the regime. 
Thanks to the support of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, ASRIC could gather in Lowell a group of volunteer lawyers and law students to listen to the stories of survivors and help them file. On the picture above Cosette Creamer (left), 28, an international relations and law PhD candidate at Harvard Law School, receives the story of Cambodian native Yean Chhoeun (center), 56, sharing her experience as a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, with the help of Cambodian native Sonith Peou (right), a program director at Metta Health Center-Lowell.
On the picture above Cambodian native Sok Sareth (right), 53, shares her experience and story as a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime with Leakhena Nou (left), Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach, and Founding Director of ASRIC.
Today, after 10 workshops in 2009 in the United States, ASRIC has already received and filed more than 150 complaints that will soon be addressed to the ECCC in Phnom Penh (the “Khmer Rouge trial”) for the second part of the trial that should start early next 2010…
