The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A young Khmer boy sits on a small rocky outcrop on a hill outside the entrance to a meditation cave and contemplates the view of the Cambodian countryside as it stretches out towards the mountains of the border with Thailand. The cave, used for centuries as a place of rest and contemplation by the nearby Turtle Wat Buddhist community, became a dumping ground for victims of the Khmer Rouge regime, who were brought here and killed with a blow to the back of their head before being pushed through a hole in the roof of the cave. Between the boy and the prominent hill in the distance, a village, bordered by paddy fields and plantations, lies along a road which runs from Battambang to the Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin.
A young boy peers up at the hole in the roof of a Buddhist meditation cave through which the Khmer Rouge dumped executed bodies during the genocide of the Pol Pot regime. A huge collection of skeletal
The plains of Cambodia stretch out towards the mountains of the border with Thailand in this view from a meditation cave located in a hill near the road from Battambang to Pailin. In the left foregrou
The plains of Cambodia stretch out towards the mountains of the border with Thailand in this view from a meditation cave located in a hill near the road from Battambang to Pailin. In the left foregrou
A young boy who accompanied Australian photographer Heide Smith and journalist Marje Prior into a Buddhist meditation cave; where the Khmer Rouge brought their victims and killed them with a blow to t
Rising above two houses which lie close to the Turtle Wat Buddhist community, these cliffs contain a cave which had been used for centuries as a place for meditation and peace. During the Khmer Rouge
Two armed members of the Australian Force Communications Unit (FCU) of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) squat with six Cambodian children who have followed them into a Bud
