Khmer Abroad Multimedia Photostories About Cambodian People Living Outside of CambodiaStephane Janin
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Cambodian Masters: Stories Told
From the Cambodian refugee camps of the Thai border in 1979 to America today, there’s still thousands of stories that must be told.
All the confirmed artists that I have met at the Cambodian temple of Silver Spring, Maryland these last two years have compelling stories… Most of them have fled Cambodia while the Vietnamese took [...]
The Nurse
Malida’s Suong parents fled Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, and escaped to Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the Thai border, where an estimated population of 160,000 refugees was living. Malida was born there in 1981. In 1985, the whole family finally left for a new life in a new country, the United [...]
The Health Center
In Lowell, Massachusetts, 1 on 3 is from Cambodian origin. The city holds the second largest Cambodian community in the US - with 30 000 people - after Long Beach, Ca. One of the most recent part of the immigration heritage that has built the city since the mid 19th century, the Cambodians refugees and [...]
Survivors’ Voices 3
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 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 [...]
Survivor’s Voices 2
After California, Oregon, Virginia, Maryland, and a week before Pennsylvania, non profit ASRIC (Applied Social Research Institute of Cambodia) organized in Lowell, Massachusetts from Nov. 6th to 8th 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 [...]
Sopheap Pich, Sculptor
In 2002, Cambodian American artist Sopheap Pich has chosen to return and live in his native country, some 16 years after he had left Cambodia with his family, establishing in Massachussets. From 1984 to 2002, he has lived in Amherst, and eventually traveled and studied in Miami, Chicago, France and Boston where he received his [...]
Boomer, a returnee rapping destiny…
Born in 1982 in a refugee camp on the Thai border, Bunreas Pin (known as Boomer) arrived in the US as a baby and has lived all his childhood in Stockton, CA. As a young adult he got involved in gang activities, went to jail and was finally deported back to Cambodia at the age [...]
Survivors’ Voices
Far from their native country, few Cambodian Americans have a full understanding of how the Khmer Rouge trial works in Cambodia, and about the possibility to file a complaint to be addressed to the court, as witness or victim of physical, material psychological injuries. A Professor of Sociology at California State University has founded an [...]
The Graduate
On Friday May 22, 2009, Jamie Kimberly Lok, 25, graduated from the School of Public Health of University of Maryland, College Park, with an MPH, a Master of Public Health. A wonderful achievement, 30 years after her mother had to flee her country devastated by the Khmer Rouge regime…