THE EVIDENCE
DURING THAILAND’S
AGGRESSION, 2025
I hope the Ministry of Defense is collecting all the circumstantial evidence as possible not only in accordance with the law,
but as a matter of policy to ensure the historical truth of what has happened and what is happening along the border is not
distorted, diluted or erased by parties implicated in unlawful actions. Collecting evidence is much broader than interviewing
people and documenting evidence. It also includes preserving all the crime sites and sites impacted by unlawful activities.
Certain locations in Preah Vihear province (such as the military history zone) provide opportunities for the government to
turn the site into a Preah Vihear Peace Center or a memorial site. Such a center or site could honor and serve as dedicated
grounds to honor soldiers who died during Thailand’s aggression. Cambodia also has an ancestors’ festival where we should
continue to honor those who are no longer with us every year.
Whatever we do, the evidence of these events must be preserved.
– YOUK CHHANG
Director, Documentation Center of Cambodia
August 18, 2025
