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Richard Vincent Ram, a Rutgers-Newark Honors College senior, left, and Meng-Try Ea, a volunteer with the Documentation Center of Cambodia, review photographs for an exhibition, “Khmer Rouge, Then and Now: A Photographic History,” on display from March 28 through April 30. Honors College students studying the causes of genocide organized the exhibition, which features photographs from the center archive. The archive contains documents, such as papers, photographs, films and other materials, that provide a record of the Khmer Rouge-orchestrated genocide from 1975 to 1979 that claimed almost a quarter of Cambodia’s 8 million people. Alex Hinton, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology in Newark, said Rutgers-Newark is one of only two universities in America to serve as U.S. repositories for the most comprehensive archive on the Khmer Rouge regime and its reign of terror in Cambodia. Hinton said the Honors College course, a special guest lecture series and the photo exhibition build on the presence of the archives, which arrived at Rutgers-Newark in February 2005. The course and series were made possible by the Rutgers-Newark Alumni Association and the Rutgers Foundation. The exhibition opens with lectures and a reception in the Dana Room of the Dana Library from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 28. For information, call 973-353-5222.
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