The Khmer Rouge archives that are now held by the Documentation Center of Cambodia in Phnom Penh are not the same archives as the ones that were built up during the Khmer Rouge regime. The largest archive, the archive of the Tuol Sleng incarceration centre, comprises records that were found in several places and brought together in one archive. In the upheaval of the first months following the breakdown of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, many records were lost, stolen, misappropriated or destroyed. During the 1980s, the remaining records were kept in poor conditions and remained uncatalogued. Some records known to have been in the archive in 1979 later disappeared, and some records were later added to the archive. By retracing the history of the Tuol Sleng Archive and looking through a Records Continuum lens at the archival processes that were applied when the archive was appropriated by the successor government and reconstructed into an archive that supported their political aims, this paper uncovers some problems that have affected the way the records were managed, which have serious implications for the reuse of the records as instruments of evidence, accountability and memory. The author argues that the work that was done on the archive by foreign organisations amounted to a neo-colonial exploitation of the archive. She concludes that there is a clear need to rethink the way the records are accessed and used and she advocates for an archival system based on Cambodian values and ethics that takes into account the rights of the subjects of the records and of their communities.

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红色高棉档案馆：挪用，重建，新殖民主义剥削及其对唱片重复使用的影响

现在由柬埔寨金边文献中心保存的红色高棉档案与红色高棉政权建立的档案不同。最大的档案库是Tuol Sleng监禁中心的档案库，其中包含在多个地方找到的记录，并将它们汇总到一个档案中。在1979年红色高棉政权崩溃后的头几个月的动荡中，许多记录丢失，被盗，挪用或销毁。在1980年代期间，其余的记录处于恶劣的状态，并且未列入目录。某些已知在1979年保存在档案中的记录后来消失了，一些记录后来又添加到了档案中。通过追溯Tuol Sleng档案馆的历史，并通过Records Continuum镜头查看当继任政府将档案馆占用并重建为支持其政治目的的档案馆时所应用的档案过程，本文揭示了一些问题影响了记录的管理方式，这严重影响了记录作为证据，问责制和记忆工具的重用。作者认为，外国组织对档案所做的工作相当于对档案进行了新殖民主义的利用。