Khmer Rouge archives: appropriation, reconstruction, neo-colonial exploitation and their implications for the reuse of the records

Viviane Frings‐Hessami1
1Centre for Social and Organisational Informatics, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Caulfield East, Australia

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