UNESCO grants World Heritage status to Khmer Rouge atrocity sites – paving the way for other sites of conflict
- Written by Rachel Hughes, Associate Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
A series of atrocity sites of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been formally entered onto the World Heritage list, as part of the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee.
This is not only important for Cambodia, but also raises important questions for atrocity sites in Australia.
Before this, the World Heritage list only recognised...
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