Despite humanity's promises to improve, serious atrocities and war crimes continue. Whether it is the hollowed out cities in Syria, the heartbreaking images of one million Rohingya fleeing ethnic cleansing in Burma or the continued conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, suffering and human rights violations are rampant.
In these times, the consciousness of the world is in question. The response to these tragedies must always be justice, must always be accountability -- even if it takes decades.
On April 17, 1975, when the Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh, Bryant Ben, who was just a teenager, joined his family in the forced long march out of the city.
During the brutal Khmer Rouge reign, Bryant was starved, worked to exhaustion and imprisoned for minor offenses alongside millions of other Cambodians, before escaping. He lost his father and four siblings.
Now, more than 42 years later, Bryant has the chance to find justice. You can help him. The Center for Justice and Accountability represents Bryant and more than a 100 Cambodian-Americans like him before the Extraordinary Chambers of the Court of Cambodia or the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
At the tribunal, Bryant hopes to be able to share his story of how the Khmer Rouge brutality devastated his family and that of millions of other Cambodians. His testimony before the court can become a part of the path to justice and establish a historical record of how his abusers were held to account.
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