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Oregon Legislative Assembly recognizes and honors the history, resiliency, and strength of Cambodian Americans throughout Oregon and the United States

Memorializes approximately 2 million people (nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population) who died in the Cambodian Genocide following the Khmer Rouge takeover on April 17, 1975

Honors survivors of the Cambodian Genocide living in Oregon today

Acknowledges April 17, 2025 as the 50th anniversary of both the Khmer Rouge seizing control and the beginning of the genocide in the Killing Fields

Notes that refugee resettlement between 1975-1979 contributed to passage of the federal Refugee Act of 1980