P03258.147 Accession Number: P03258.147

Description

Theany Savon (right), a worker for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) talks to Men Choun (left) after the car in which Theany Savon and Australian photographer Heide Smith were travelling broke down outside the small village of Phoum Ang Krasang in Takeo province. Men Choun is dressed in traditional white mourning clothes, having recently lost his mother who is buried in the front yard. To Men Choun's left are his four children. They were one of the rare Cambodian families to have survived virtually intact despite living through the Khmer Rouge years and spending years in the Thai border refugee camp known as Site 2, which was controlled by the Son Sann's Khmer National People's Liberation Front (KPNLF). Men Choun returned on 25 December 1992 to find his father's house still standing and his parents alive.

Details

Accession Number
P03258.147
Maker
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Format: 35mm
Support: Acetate
Date Made
1993
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor H Smith
Copyright
AWM copyright

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