This morning tension rose one notch at Dey Krohom again: suddenly all the 7NG employees who have been harassing the Dey Krohom inhabitants for the last weeks showed up in shiny new outfits from the municipal park guards (VIJ2008003G)… It didn’t change their attitude…At noon there was a plenary session of the judicial officers at […]
Yesterday shot some pictures -again- at Chhoeung Ek (the killing fields where the people interrogated at the Khmer Rouge S21 prison were executed). I have been there seven or eight times since 1989. It seems more and more teeth, brittle bones, still colourfull pieces of clothing come back to the surface… As a reminder…
On January 7th, 1979, the Vietnamese army liberated Phnom Penh from the Khmer Rouge regime which brutally ruled over Cambodia for 3 years, 8 months and 20 days. Because of the Cold War dictating global politics at the time, the presence of the vietnamese army was used as a pretext to keep the Khmer Rouge as […]
I put 9 of yesterday’s pictures on the Paris ftp server (in my JOHNVINK folder)…
Took pictures (VIJ2004043G) of: PICH Kalyann, 52 yrs, spent one year in Kuk Sang prison (Kandal) from April 78 to April 79. Meets with OUM Bhon, 48 yrs, former Khmer Rouge who was sent to to Kuk Sang prison to be “hardened”. VANN Nath, one of the seven survivors of S21. SUM Rithy, 53yrs, was […]
Just sent 6 pictures in medium res to the editorial desks at the four offices of Duch in front of his judges telling him he’ll stay a little longer in jail…
I’ll be at the ECCC on Monday 3rd to take pictures of Duch when he’ll hear if his request to be freed will be accepted by the judges or not. The shooting on Rithy Panh’s Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique will therefore be postponed to the 4th and 5th.
I shot some more pictures at the Volleyball World Cup Disabled (VIJ2007036G) on Nov 26th, took some pictures at this year’s water festival (VIJ2007042G) on Nov. 23 rd and 24th, and today Nov. 27th, took portraits of François ROUX (VIJ2007043G), co-defense lawyer of Duch at the ECCC, of Zacarias Moussaoui in the USA, of José […]