The Documentation Center of Cambodia aims to reach out assisting at least 10,000 victims of Democratic Kampuchea in filing complaints (either criminal or as civil parties) before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia during 2008. We view this activity as helping ordinary Cambodians to participate in the process of bringing the leaders of Democratic Kampuchea to a formal legal accounting, and equally important, in re-activating the less formal “truth commission” that was begun during the early 1980s with the signing of the Renakse petitions (see a report on Renakse petitions by Amy Gordon and William Schulte for the details).

The Renakse Petition: The History of the Renakse Petitions