The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Houseboats and ferries line the bank of the Tonle Sap River near the centre of Phnom Penh, where any unoccupied land adjoining the river has been settled or squatted on by many thousands of landless poor who returned after years of exile in the Thai border camps under the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) Repatriation program, to discover their former homes were already 'owned' and occupied; others have been displaced by fighting, landmines and rural poverty. Conditions are generally unhygenic and the odour from these settlements is overpowering.
A small stream or drain cuts through the river bank to empty into the Tonle Sap River next to a line of houseboats and shanty houses near the centre of Phnom Penh. Any unoccupied land adjoining the ri
A woman feed cobs of corn to one of her children at the doorway to their temporary home built on swampy ground adjacent to the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh, which is typical of the conditions in whic
Two young Khmer children pause from their games amongst the rubbish surrounding a squatter settlement on the swampy banks of Phnom Penh's Tonle Sap River to regard Australian photographer Heide Smith
A young mother holding a tiny newborn baby wrapped in a krama (a traditional scarf), sits on the steps of the wat (or temple) that her and her family are squatting in. The wat, in Phnom Penh, appears
A Cambodian family who are squatting in the grounds of the wat (or temple) that appears in P03258.434, in Phnom Penh. The young woman sitting in the foreground is holding a tiny newborn baby wrapped i
Children run and play amongst temporary dwellings built on ground that runs down through swamps to the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh, and which is typical of the conditions in which many thousands of
