GENEVA.- The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum presents the exhibit Cambodia 1975-1979 Chronicles of a genocide starting on September 13 and running through January 28, 2007 The entry of Vietnamese troops into Phnom Penh in January 1979 brought to an end the Khmer Rouge regime which had cost the lives of 1.7 million Cambodians, nearly a quarter of the country's population in 1975.

More than twenty years later, the surviving persons responsible for this genocide have still not been brought to justice. However, political developments in recent years have given rise to the hope of a trial being organised. Supported by the inter-national community, measures designed to bring those responsible before a court of justice should materialise in 2007.

Conceived by the Lyons Center for the History of the Resistance and Deportation and adapted by the Museum, the exhibition gives an account of the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge and examines its impact on contemporary Cambodian society. Through ethnographic objects and photo-graphic records, it presents the historical and cultural context in which the events took place and reviews the circumstances which allowed the Khmer Rouge to take power in April 1975.

The exhibition goes on to examine the new regime and its underlying ideology, before focusing more closely on its bloody consequences. The reality of these three years of terror is brought home to the visitor through portraits of the murdered victims and photographs of Cambodians subjected to forced labor or driven into exile.

Finally, the exhibition covers the overthrow of the regime by the Vietnamese in 1979 and its consequences for Cambodia, an account which permits an analysis of the obstacles to the punishment of those responsible for the genocide. This impunity and its impact on the victims lie at the heart of the film S-21, The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2002), a documentary by the Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, which forms the last part of the exhibition.