So this Mr.Duch, this time in appeal, how many years in jail will he get for having run an efficient torture center? More? Less? Does it really matter?.. It isn’t as much about the length of his punishment as it is about knowing the mechanisms and the political system which brought him to do what [...]
In Western culture All Saints Day is traditionally a time to remember the deceased. As it turns out I seem to have quite a few pictures relating to funerals and rituals related to the deceased. In the following posts I will take you to different parts of the world on a not necessarily morbid journey… [...]
Vann Nath, born in Battambang province in 1946, passed away… He was one of the three remaining survivors of the S21 interrogation center. Now only two are left. The trial of four ‘most responsible’ and elderly Khmer Rouge leaders should start early 2012… Unless they too pass away… I feel immensely privileged to have had [...]
Vann Nath, one of the very few survivors of S21, suffered a stroke and is in a coma. Richard Rechtman, Psyhiatrist and Anthropologist, said about him : “Vann Nath is probably the first witness I meet who bears witness to nothing but forces the others to testify”. See this and this…
The second Khmer Rouge trial starts today. I will not be there. But I believe the photographs I could take will be very similar to this. For the background on the Khmer Rouge trial check this.
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…
He does it nearly every year: documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh is at the Cannes film festival with a new movie. This one is called ‘Maître des Forges de l’Enfer’ and is about Kaing Guek Eav, alias ‘Duch’. Long interviews before his trial. I have a few stories on my website related to this… One is [...]
Kaing Geak Eav, alias Duch, sentenced to 35 years…