Description
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 Buddhist meditation cave used by the Khmer Rouge to dump executed bodies during the genocide of the Pol Pot regime. The young boy second from the left is holding a plastic toy AKM. A huge pile of skulls and other skeletal remains have been heaped onto a long low shelf against the wall of the cave behind them, which forms the focus for prayers and offerings to the victims. Located on a hill next to the resurrected Turtle Wat community on the road from Battambang to Pailin, this site was used for centuries as a place of rest and contemplation.
Details
Accession Number
P03258.281
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Credit Line
Donor H Smith
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