Koh Kret Pottery, a unique GI product, aims to become a cultural tourism landmark, promoting local craftsmanship and boosting sustainable community income

Like many who survived the nightmare years living under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime, Yary Livan emerged from the experience secretly carrying with him some portion of the Khmer culture’s traditional knowledge and skills that Cambodia’s new leaders were trying to violently erase in order to reset society so they could implement their version of totalitarian communism.