article_snippet.sent: Since production began five years ago, the television show, "It's Not A Dream," has reunited members of 54 Cambodian families shattered by the genocide.
article_snippet.sent: The series is just one example of the ways in which Cambodia's traumatized society is beginning to undertake the fraught, painful business of reckoning with Cambodia's traumatized society history.
article_snippet.sent: The scars of the Khmer Rouge are very deep and physical and present in modern Cambodia," said Theary Seng, a human rights lawyer whose parents were killed by the regime, and who moved to the U.S. as a refugee before returning to her homeland as an adult.
article_snippet.sent: The silence was also due to the fact that Cambodians, in Seng's words, "lacked the vocabulary" of therapy and healing to process a crime of the magnitude of the one perpetrated against their society.
article_snippet.sent: The space for discussing, redressing and healing from the genocide in high school only began to open up in the past decade with the establishment of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, said Seng.
article_snippet.sent: The presence of the international community raised the comfort level of the population to speak about the Khmer Rouge's crimes against humanity.
article_snippet.sent: An ongoing struggle for justice after the Khmer Rouge .
article_snippet.sent: Undoubtedly, Cambodians today have overcome the fear of talking about the genocide in high school -- to the extent that even the perpetrators feel emboldened to say even the perpetrators piece.
article_snippet.sent: But for a few of these self-serving justifications for crimes, at least, Cambodia's opening up about the genocide in high school has finally brought about the prospect of some healing, however bittersweet.
highlights_snippet.sent: Decades on, the country is still struggling to gain justice for victims and heal from the genocide .