The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) CIVPOL (Civilian Police) base at Thmar Puok in Banteay Meanchey Province, also known as the 'Liberated Zone'. A line of five white Toyota UN vehicles has been parked at the front of the base. During their period with CIVPOL, the Australian Federal Police (AFP)'s essential duty was to promote law and order in a country where the rule of law was yet to be properly established, and to train police from all political and military factions in basic policing procedures and human rights. The Liberated Zone, previously under total Khmer Rouge control, came under the shared command of the four Cambodian political factions (including the Khmer Rouge) as a result of the Paris Peace Accord of 23 October 1991.
The Liberated Zone Police Headquarters at Thmar Puok in Banteay Meanchey Province. All the attap houses in this complex had to be built by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) before they could commenc
Australian photographer Heide Smith poses for a quick shot as she sits in the back of an Australian Force Communications Unit (FCU) vehicle which is approaching the Australian Federal Police base at T
Superintendent Bill Kirk, Commander of the first contingent of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), with a Khmer Rouge soldier at a road checkpoint at Thmar Puok, close to the Civilian Police (CIVPOL)
The manager of the Thmar Puok Hospital in Banteay Meanchey Province, an unidentified Dutch doctor, pictured on the verandah of the hospital with her Cambodian assistant. Cambodia's stretched health sy
A crowd of young children and mothers holding babies gather to inspect their visitors in a village in the Liberated Zone of Banteay Meanchey province in far northwest Cambodia. The two women in the ce
Having just emerged from swimming, this group of children stand or squat on a narrow pier that juts out into the village pond, and turn to view the camera apprehensively. The older girl on the left is
