Gender-Based Violence Against Sexual Minorities During the Khmer Rough Regime

During the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime in Cambodia, people belonging to sexual minorities, examined as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people (LGBT), were forced to experience specific forms of gender-based violence and sexual violence that were not experienced by the majority of Khmer people. (…) The motivation to conduct this pioneering research started with my strong commitment to break the culture of denial of basic human rights of sexual minorities in Cambodia. Enabling the voices of the most marginalized group to be heard can contribute to empowering older victims of the KR and youth alike.
Discourse and research about gender-based violence in the Khmer Rough Regime has focused almost exclusively on violence perpetrated against women. The KR regime was the period when the government with extreme communism forced people in cities to move to rural areas.