Day of Remembrance in Cambodia
Day of Remembrance in Cambodia is held on May 20. This event in the second decade of the month May is annual. Help us
Remembrance Day or Righteous Wrath Day has been celebrated in Cambodia since 1984. Day in memory of the victims of the genocide, which was carried out by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979. Beginning of massacres in Democratic Kampuchea - May 20, 1976. It was also the date that the Khmer Rouge began forced collectivization in southern Takeo in 1973.
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Greek Genocide Remembrance Day on May 19 (Greece);
National Missing Children's Day in United States on May 25 (and its related observances: - International Missing Children's Day);
Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day in Fiji on May 26 (The celebrations in honor of Fiji's first modern statesman actually begin a week early)