Guide to the Cambodia Documentation Commission Records,
1985-1990

The Cambodia Documentation Commission is an association of Cambodian refugees, and human rights, legal, and Cambodia specialists. Associates of the Documentation Commission have conducted numerous research investigations in Cambodia and Thailand, analyzed phenomena of repression, translated Khmer language documents into English and international human rights declarations and conventions into Khmer, made human rights appeals to Cambodian political leaders and UN member states, made oral and written interventions at the UN Commission on Human Rights, testified to committees of the U.S. Congress, and monitored the Cambodia debates at the UN General Assembly and international conferences on Cambodia. The Director of the Documentation Commission is David R. Hawk, Associate of the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights.

Records include reports by David R. Hawk and the Commission on the conflict in Cambodia; annual reports of the Commission; translations of international conventions into Khmer; photographs and miscellaneous papers on "Cambodia Witness" photograph exhibit; "Khmer Rouge Prison Documents," photocopies of documents relating to political imprisonment, systematic torture, and extra-judicial execution selected from Khmer Rouge prison archives, in Khmer and English; "Registry of Confessions" (photocopy); and oversize proof sheets of photographs of prisoners and guards at the S-21 (Tuol Sleng) prison-execution facility in Phnom Penh.