The body’s memory

Conference

Health consequences of the deficits suffered
under the Khmer Rouge regime

by Patrick Heuveline,
Professor in Sociology (University of California at Los Angeles)

Tuesday 4th April at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, Khmer and English
Free entrance

Feed rations given during the Khmer Rouge regime to groups of deported population were highly inadequate given the physical effort that was required because of forced labor, and led to generalized malnutrition. The Vietnamese invasion not only chased the Khmer Rouge away but also perturbed the harvest – with limited stock, famine followed. The most flagrant evidences of the effects of malnutrition have all been collected throughout famines in Europe during the 19th and 20th century. Cambodia, however, is very different from what one might find in Europe.

This conference is part of the IRASEC conference series organized by Anne Yvonne Guillou, Anthropologist at CNRS / IRASEC