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Interview: Founder of Khmer Legacies Socheata Poeuv
By: Teague Schneiter
Posted: Oct 29 09
Witnessed: 1262 times
Regions: Global, Cambodia
Issues: Crimes against humanity, Genocide, Human rights defenders, Justice, Transitional justice
Tags: access to information, archives, archivists, documentation, human rights, records, repressive regimes, restorative justice, Truth
This interview was conducted by Hub/Archive Intern Teague Schneiter (October 2nd, 2009 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut) with Socheata Poeuv, founder of Khmer Legacies - a Cambodian Genocide video testimony archive. This video is the second part in a series of interviews with professionals and academics on the topic of archives and human rights, as part of a larger project to highlight the importance of thinking of archives in a human rights context, for achieving greater understanding of this burgeoning field.
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In this video, Socheata discusses the following questions:
• What is the goal of your organisation?
• How do oral testimonies shape our remembrance of past atrocities?
• How can archives add to our understanding of history?
• What are some ethical concerns with putting (this type of) video online?
• What do archives have to do with human rights?
hub.witness.org/ArchivesHumanRights
Interview, filming, and editing by Hub/Archive intern Teague Schneiter and logging and editing by Archive Intern Michele DeLia.
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