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Hatred Day 1989, Day of Anger 2009

Sorry, The Day of Anger (previously Hatred Day) was yesterday. I’m a day late.

20 years separate those two pictures: the graves are slowly leveling with the ground…

Here is a multimedia I did in 2009 for Ka-Set…

CAMBODIA. Chhoeung Ek. 20/05/1989: Celebration of Hatred Day.

CAMBODIA. Chhoeung Ek. 20/05/1989: Celebration of Hatred Day.

CAMBODIA. Chhoeung Ek (Phnom Penh). 20/05/2009: Initiated in 1984 by a regime seeking legitimacy, Hatred Day commemorates the directive of collectivism planned by Pol Pot. The celebration was stopped after the 1991 Paris Peace accords but was still attended to in the provinces. Phnom Penh reinstated it in 1999. It is now called Day of Anger...

CAMBODIA. Chhoeung Ek (Phnom Penh). 20/05/2009: Initiated in 1984 by a regime seeking legitimacy, Hatred Day commemorates the directive of collectivism planned by Pol Pot. The celebration was stopped after the 1991 Paris Peace accords but was still attended to in the provinces. Phnom Penh reinstated it in 1999. It is now called Day of Anger...

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