Touching photo.
How did they die or who killed them?
06/06/05 02:54 PM
raul said...
The Khmer Rouge were oddly meticulous about documenting people before killing them. So before taking someone out to the killing fields the victim would be photographed. The negative was then contact printed and filed. The processing center where the images were taken is now a museum. Tens of thousands of these photos are now on display.
06/06/05 07:34 PM
Jeanette said...
can't help but think...each one was somebody's baby once...
Chilling just seeing the faces, even moreso after realizing what it was.
06/24/05 09:09 PM
richard said...
If I remember correctly (it's been about 25 years) the judges who decided who would live or not were usually 11 to 13 year old boys. That's cold.
12/18/05 11:22 PM
moss said...
Because of their secrecy, the Kmer Rouge didn't even tell their own cadres about the impending Vietnamese invasion of Phnom Penh in 1979. As a result when the city fell there was little or no time to hide or destroy sensitive documents, and "institutions" such as Tuol Sleng, where these pictures were taken. As a result rumors about S-21, where most of these prisoners were held before they were taken to the killing fields and clubbed to death, could be substantiated.
06/06/05 01:34 PM
mike said...
awesome.
06/06/05 02:05 PM
Matthias said...
Touching photo.
How did they die or who killed them?
06/06/05 02:54 PM
raul said...
The Khmer Rouge were oddly meticulous about documenting people before killing them. So before taking someone out to the killing fields the victim would be photographed. The negative was then contact printed and filed. The processing center where the images were taken is now a museum. Tens of thousands of these photos are now on display.
06/06/05 07:34 PM
Jeanette said...
can't help but think...each one was somebody's baby once...
06/08/05 11:43 PM
Mike said...
Chilling just seeing the faces, even moreso after realizing what it was.
06/24/05 09:09 PM
richard said...
If I remember correctly (it's been about 25 years) the judges who decided who would live or not were usually 11 to 13 year old boys. That's cold.
12/18/05 11:22 PM
moss said...
Because of their secrecy, the Kmer Rouge didn't even tell their own cadres about the impending Vietnamese invasion of Phnom Penh in 1979. As a result when the city fell there was little or no time to hide or destroy sensitive documents, and "institutions" such as Tuol Sleng, where these pictures were taken. As a result rumors about S-21, where most of these prisoners were held before they were taken to the killing fields and clubbed to death, could be substantiated.