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Reclining Buddha at Stockton Temple
A sculpture of a fifty-foot reclining Buddha is one of several large statues on the grounds of the Cambodian Buddhist Temple (Wat Dhammararam) in Stockton, California.
Featured in:
Cambodian Americans, Module 4
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2023 Cambodia Town Parade
Footage from the 2023 Cambodia Town Parade in Long Beach, California.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 4
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17th Annual Cambodian Town Parade
The start of the 17th annual Cambodia Town Parade in Long Beach, California. Long Beach has the largest concentration of residents of Cambodian descent outside of Cambodia.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 4
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“Massacre Brings Out New Form of Teror for Refugees”
On January 17, 1989, Patrick Purdy shot and killed five students—four Cambodian Americans and one Vietnamese American—and wounded thirty-two others at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California. This was the deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school until Sandy Hook in 2012.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 4
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The Philippine Refugee Processing Center
The Philippine Refugee Processing Center (PRPC) opened in 1980 and prepared Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees for immigration to resettlement nations, primarily the US. The processing center closed in the early 1990s.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 4
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Khao-I-Dang Refugee Camp
Khao-I-Dang refugee camp opened in 1979 on the Thailand–Cambodia border after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. At its height, the camp sheltered nearly 140,000 refugees. After closing in 1993, it has since reopened as an educational center.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 4
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2023 Report on Forcibly Displaced People
UNHCR’s Global Trends report presents the latest official statistics on forcibly displaced people worldwide, including refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced and stateless people. The graph illustrates the massive increase since 2014, and identifies displaced populations by their respective legal categories.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 4
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Heang Chhun Interview: Constrained Choices
In this clip, the author’s father considers the importance of context and constrained choices to the actions he and others took during that time. Moving away from inflexible measures of right and wrong, he makes space for a more complete understanding of different experiences of violence.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Heang Chhun Interview: Threat of Starvation
In this clip, the author’s father transitions from discussing the strict rationing of food and the threat of starvation during the Cambodian Genocide to talking about the clandestine practice of “stealing” he utilized in order to survive.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Heang Chhun Interview: Surveillance and Fear
This clip is excerpted from an oral history interview with the author’s father, Heang Chhun, conducted in 2009. In this discussion of surveillance and fear during the Cambodian Genocide, he explains the importance and value of silence to survival.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Khmer Rouge Uniforms
Khmer Rouge uniforms on display at the museum of Choeung Ek, near Phnom Penh in Cambodia. The shapeless, black, gender-neutral clothes were inspired by peasant garb and were required for men, women, and children enrolled in Khmer Rouge militias.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Democratic Kampuchea’s Administrative and Political Geography
This map was first published by Democratic Kampuchea’s Ministry of Education in a 1977 Khmer Rouge text that described the regime’s administrative and political geography for a level-2 elementary class.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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National Anthem of Democratic Kampuchea
“Dap Prampi Mesa Moha Chokchey” was proclaimed the national anthem of Democratic Kampuchea under the Khmer Rouge on January 5, 1976. Although some claim that Pol Pot himself might have written the piece, its origins remain unknown.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
The Communist leader Pol Pot (far left) and members of the Khmer Rouge in May, 1979. The regime, defined by militarism, racism, and territorial expansion, was responsible for the horrific Cambodian Holocaust that claimed the lives of up to two million people.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Administrative Zones for Democratic Kampuchea
After the Lon Nol coup of 1970, during the Cambodian Civil War, the Khmer Rouge divided the country into geographic zones. These zones would become administrative divisions during the period of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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We Charge Genocide
Drawing on the UN Genocide Convention’s definition of genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, racial, or religious group,” We Charge Genocide (1951) laid out a meticulously researched case in 237 pages.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Bomb Crater in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia
A bomb crater in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia, photographed in 2014.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 2
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Aerial View of Bomb Craters in Cambodia
An overhead view of bomb craters from the US aerial bombardment in the 1960s and 1970s marking the fields in Kandal Province, Cambodia.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 2
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Wreckage of American B-52 Bomber
The wreckage of an American B-52 bomber, shot down during the Vietnam War on December 27, 1972, can be seen in Hữu Tiệp Lake in the Ngọc Hà neighborhood of Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 2
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Operation Rolling Thunder
Footage from US Air Force and Naval air operations during Operation Rolling Thunder from March 1965 to November 1968 in Vietnam. Rolling Thunder was the most intense operation waged during the Cold War.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 2
