The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
One of the nuns who have helped to reestablish a religious community at the Turtle Wat (or temple) in an area just outside of Battambang which was renowned for being used as an execution site by the Khmer Rouge. A wat on the next hill was one of these sites and it still lies abandoned, as does a meditation cave nearby which was used to dump thousands of bodies. Buddhist monks and nuns were singled out for particularly brutal treatment during the 1976-1979 period of autogenocide for being 'incompatible with the revolution'. Tens of thousands were expelled from their wats (or temples) which were systematically destroyed and it is estimated that 50,000 died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. In 1981, about 5,000 monks were recorded as practicing in Cambodia, compared to over 100,000 recorded in 1969. The Khmer community is responding to the spiritual guidance offered by this order and the Turtle Wat is slowly becoming a centre of healing, especially after Theravada Buddhism was reinstituted as the state religion in 1989.
One of the nuns who have helped to reestablish a religious community at the Turtle Wat (or temple) in an area just outside of Battambang which was renowned for being used as an execution site by the K
Wearing a krama (a traditional scarf) over her white robe, this woman is one of the nuns who have helped to reestablish a religious community at the Turtle Wat (or temple) in an area just outside of B
Standing in front of the graffittied wall of their temple known as the Turtle Wat, located just outside Battambang, these four nuns have helped to reestablish a religious community in an area renowned
As his driver waits, a saffron robed monk from the small Buddhist community at Thmar Puok chats briefly to fellow monks before embarking on a cyclo trip. Buddhist monks and nuns were singled out for p
An older Buddhist nun tends to flowers in the grounds of Wat Ounalom, a temple located in central Phnom Penh, just of the Royal Palace. She is one of the few survivors from the Khmer Rouge period of a
Young novice monks cut timber to make repairs to the fabric of Wat Ounalom, a temple located in central Phnom Penh, just north of the Royal Palace. The majority of Buddhist monks and nuns today are re
