Things caught up again after one week of intermission…
CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 8/06/2009: The courtroom building on the 24th day of Duch trial at the ECCC.
CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 8/06/2009: Judge Silvia Cartwright on the 24th day of Duch trial at the ECCC.
LAOS. Kassia. 06/10/1993: Rice harvest of Hmong tribe. Sickle to reap early rice. The stems are cut at a height of 40 cm and left to dry on top of the remains.
BURMA. Mong Kar (Wa State). 10/11/2003: Rice harvest in paddy fields. UNODC has built irrigation canals in the area allowing several crops of rice a year. Their main concern is that the newly irrigated land will be occupied by Chinese immigrants.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 7/06/2009: Mothers day.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh (Phnom Penh). 5/06/2008: Inhabitants of Group 78, the last cluster to be evicted on the Bassac front, leaving for Boeung Trabek.
On June 4th 1989 I left Cambodia. I would be coming back: October 10th of the same year, but in the refugee camps of Site 2 and Khao-i-Dang.
CAMBODIA. Neak Leung. 04/06/1989: On route Nr 1, going from Phnom Penh to Vietnam. Ferry on the Mekong river.
CAMBODIA. Bavet. 04/06/1989: Customs formalities at Cambodian-Vietnamese border.
For that area that is… Group 78 is the last cluster which will eventually be evicted from the Bassac front. It will have taken nearly ten years to move everyone out of there…
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh (Phnom Penh). 3/06/2008: Inhabitants of Group 78, the last cluster to be evicted on the Bassac front, about o leave.
20 years ago: Angkor Wat without tourists…
CAMBODIA. Siem Reap. 03/06/1989: Photograph of vietnamese soldiers in front of Angkor Wat.
And that’s how you got there…
CAMBODIA. 03/06/1989: Condensation on an Air Kampuchea flight to Siem Reap.
So I thought I might treat you to another picture of exactly 20 years ago… Well almost exactly. It seems I don’t have edited one picture on June 1st 1989. Will June 2nd do ok?
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 2/06/1989: Unloading river barges.
So, this is the first book about the Khmer Rouge explaining to schoolchildren what it was (is?) about…
DCCAM is distributing the book by and large. Here to the 2000 students of the NGO Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE) which provides schooling and professional training to kids from the Stung Meanchey garbage dump.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh (Phnom Penh). 29/05/2009: Students of PSE (Pour un Sourire d’Enfant) during their weekly meditation time before DCCAM (Documentation Center of Cambodia) distributes copies of its latest publication, a schoolbook about the Khmer Rouge regime.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh (Phnom Penh). 29/05/2009: DCCAM (Documentation Center of Cambodia) distributing copies of their latest publication, a schoolbook about the Khmer Rouge regime, to students of PSE (Pour un Sourire d’Enfant).
Story nr VIJ2009035…