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After California, Oregon, Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts non profit ASRIC (Applied Social Research Institute of Cambodia) has organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Nov. 13th and 14th 2009 what may be its last 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, and with the help of organizations of Pennsylvania (Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia, Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, The Khmer Post East Coast), ASRIC could gather in Philadelphia a group of volunteer lawyers and students to listen to the stories of survivors and help them file.
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…
On the picture above: Cambodian native Soeun Tauch (right), 73, shares her experience and story as survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime with Cambodian native Phatry Derek Pan (left), a South East Asian specialist, human rights writer, and an ASRIC volunteer to help receive the stories of survivors.
On the picture left: Leakhena Nou, Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach, and Founding Director of ASRIC, receives the stories of survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime.
