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Photographer’s Note

Pour compléter ma photo de cellule postée ce matin (http://fr.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/Cambodia/photo312661.htm), voici quelques portraits de victimes des Khmères Rouges.
Toutes leurs victimes étaient méthodiquement photographiées avant de subir des fins atroces, souvent ils prenaient une photo après les tortures subies.

Je conseille à toute personne se rendant au Cambodge de visiter ce musée sur le Génocide, on ne peut ressortir de là en ayant les mêmes idées qu'en y rentrant, vous aurez un autre regard sur ces gens si attachants.

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RGatward (19737) 2006-01-30 4:27

With the inclusion of the child there this is even more horrific than the Nazi's methodical documentation of the murders at their concentration camps, as presented at the various similar museums in Europe. There's even more reason to horrified by this story though, cleverly illustrated by an Eddie Izzard comedy routine, which lambasts the international community for ignoring Pol Pot for so long, reasoning that we didn't care that much, since he was only murdering his own people. I think the truth is even worse than this lack of care, there was clandestine US support for him since he was in violent opposition to the Vietnamese, that's something really worth remembering.

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jinju (14265) 2006-01-30 7:09

Hey Phil,

you should check out this shot http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/Cambodia/photo312742.htm by my friend and downstarir neighbor of the same topic. It may interest you. I think that even if both shots took a different approach both succeeded fantastically in giving us the horror of this tragedy. While Ben goes for the visual shock of the skulls, you show a different approach. The way the people here are all lined up, in a methodical, cold, machinistic fashion gives us the feel that this was a very cold. methodical mass extermination. Which perhaps may be even more terrible and fightening than anything else. As Richard say, it totally reminds us of the NAZIs.

leo61 (42664) 2006-01-30 14:22

Hello Philippe!
Nearly exactly one year ago I have been to this place:Toul Sleng.
I`m German and now 44 Years old and off course I heard about the Khmeres Rouges in the seventies and was astonished that nobody was doing something against it.
Visiting this former school,now museum I was shocked that this could happen again 30 years after the nazi regime.But we all know ;history repeats.......
Thank you for showing us this foto and I agree with your note.Cambodia is not only Angkor Wat.
Regards,LEO

donluicu (23877) 2006-02-02 4:27

Salut Philippe
c sur que dans ces pays où la répression etait terrible, ces musées sont hyper importants, ils nous permettent de ne jamais oublier ce qui s'est passé, pour que cela ne se reproduise plus..(malheureuemsent meme de nos jours, il y a toujours de telles pratiques..)

tres bon post

loic