This is finally the fifth accused at the ECCC. It took me a while to have the opportunity to take a picture of Mrs. Ieng Tirith, Minister of Social Affairs during the Khmer Rouge regime. She says she didn’t do anything, that she was well educated, that she was working for the benefit of the […]
Journalists come and go. At the pretrial hearing yesterday, when the conclusions from the judges were read about Khieu Samphan’s complaint that not all court documents were translated in French there were what?, say 15 journalists. Against 150-200 for the first day of Duch trial just a few days ago. Not that there was much […]
There is a multimedia slideshow about the Duch trial on Ka-set with pictures from Vandy Rattana and myself. CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 17/02/2009: Kaing Guek Euv, alias Duch, in front of his judges on the opening of the ECCC tribunal on screen in press room.
It took 30 years to get there… Today was the first day of the trial against a Khmer Rouge… (Story VIJ2009013)… CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 17/02/2009: Kaing Guek Euv, alias Duch, in front of his judges on the opening of the ECCC tribunal. CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 17/02/2009: Vann Nath, painter and Tuol Sleng survivor, […]
Spent some time at Bophana Center. Set up by filmmaker Rithy Panh, the center is dedicated to reassembling Cambodia’s memory. The visual and audio documents related to Cambodia have been destroyed or scattered during the Khmer Rouge regime, and a country without a past cannot rebuild itself. Someone (yes, you too) who has pictures, movies […]
Ieng Sary, former Khmer Rouge leader was missing in my files. Today, at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal I had the opportunity to photograph him before the public hearing of the reading of the decision on the Appeal by Ieng Sary against the Order of Provisional Detention at the ECCC (Extraordinary Chambers at the Court of […]
The judges having reduced access even more for photographers to today’s first hearing at the Pretrial Chambers of the ECCC for IENG Tirith, Minister of Social Affairs during the Khmer Rouge Regime, all images from the tribunal entering History are more and more standardized. Only the feed provided by the tribunal itself will remain. Judges […]
On May 20th 1984 the People’s Republic of Kampuchea organized “Hatred Day” for the first time. I took picture of this in 1989 on my first trip to Cambodia. Today I did it again (VIJ2008039G). The reenactment of Khmer Rouge exactions is new though… There is an audiovisual of today’s ceremony on the Ka-set website […]