In the evening of May 13, 2024, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) began its first achievement and legacy dissemination through ECCC Mobile Resource Center (ECCC bus) for students and publics in Wat Botum Vatey Park in Phnom Penh. This program was held under the cooperation between the ECCC and Phnom Penh Municipal Administration to raise awareness regarding the trial achievements and legacies of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
His Excellency Tony Kranh, Secretary of State of the Office of the Council of Ministers and Acting Director of Administration of the ECCC, stated that today outreach program is the first program that ECCC begins its disseminating through the mobile Resource Center. He added that the ECCC wants everyone who comes to visit around here to learn how to check and research numerous documents in ECCC archive. He continued that in the ECCC mobile Resource Center program today, there are ECCC officials waiting to guide and brief the public on the trial processing and how to access the ECCC archive.
“ECCC mobile Resource Center is fully equipped with the latest technologies, such as laptops, projectors, interactive TV screen for presentations, playing video of documentation, education and multimedia contents." Said Tony. He added that “this mobile Center will travel throughout Cambodia of the 25 provinces and will stop at many locations such as schools, universities, crime sites and towns and for beginning mission, the mobile Resource Center has been disseminating in Phnom Penh, stopping in public parks, educational institutions, especially schools and universities.”
His Excellency Nuon Pharath, Deputy Governor of the Phnom Penh Municipal, congratulates the beginning of the ECCC information dissemination campaign through the ECCC mobile Resource Center and highly appreciated the cooperation with the ECCC. He also praised ECCC achievements and legacies outreach works.
Durning the program, there were about 50 university students from Royal University of Laws and Economics and publics participated in ECCC briefing program, intergenerational dialogue program, photo exhibitions, learning on ECCC collections, and watching movies related to the brutality of the genocidal regime.
