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Youk Chhang
Cambodian director and Khmer Rouge survivor
The native form of this personal name is Chhang Youk. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Youk Chhang (Khmer: ឆាំង យុ; born 22 January 1961) is the executive director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) and a survivor of the Khmer Rouge's killing fields.
He became DC-Cam's leader in 1995, when the center was founded as a field office of Yale University’s Cambodian Genocide Program to conduct research, training and documentation relating to the Khmer Rouge regime. Chhang continued to run the center after its inception as an independent Cambodian non-governmental organization in 1997 and is currently building on DC-Cam's work to establish the Sleuk Rith Institute, a permanent hub for genocide studies in Asia, based in Phnom Penh.
Early life
Chhang was born on 22 January 1961 in Tuol Kouk District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.[1] He was the youngest of nine children