We invite all persons displaced by violence to reflect on and share their life experiences, here.
We invite all persons displaced by violence to reflect on and share their life experiences, here.
We launch this dossier with Life Stories of Montrealers displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human Rights Violations. This five-year oral history project explores survivors' experiences and memories of mass violence and displacement. A team comprised of dozens of university and community-based researchers are in the process of recording life story interviews with more than 500 Montreal residents from Rwanda, Cambodia, Haiti, Latin America, and South Asia, as well as Holocaust survivors.
Ry Duong is the coordinator of the Cambodian Working Group. As part of the Life Stories Montreal project, the Cambodian Working Group is composed of people from the Angkorian community, people from the Khmer Buddhist temple as well as student affiliates. Their 5-year objective is to collect approximately 120 life stories of Cambodians living in Montreal. Other plans include establishing a radio station and a documentation centre for the Cambodian community, and publishing articles about the Cambodian genocide, which took place between 1975 and 1979, under the Khmer Rouge. Ry Duong begins by speaking of the difficulty of speaking about this genocide.
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