Rare Khmer Rouge Photos Find Permanent Home

Say Mony, VOA Khmer
Saturday, 18 February 2012 

The photographs, which depict life under the Khmer Rouge from a trip Becker took in  1978, will be housed permanently at the Bophana Center in the capital.

Rare photos taken by American journalist Elizabeth Becker are now on display in Phnom Penh. The photographs, which depict life under the Khmer Rouge from a trip Becker took in 1978, will be housed permanently at the Bophana Center in the capital. “I wanted an institution in Cambodia to have these copies for history,” said Becker, who covered the war in Cambodia for the Washington Post and authored a book on the Khmer Rouge.

Former Khmer Rouge Prisoners Sell Story of Their Lives

Say Mony | Phnom Penh, Cambodia,
Friday, 10 February 2012

Khmer Rouge prison survivor, Chum Mey, sells books and magazines

The United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia has ordered the Khmer Rouge’s main jailer to spend the rest of his life in prison for crimes it says were “among the worst in recorded history.” The tribunal said Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch oversaw a “factory of death” in the 1970’s at the feared Tuol Sleng Prison, where an estimated 14,000 people died. The prison itself, called “S-21” by the Khmer Rouge, is now a museum. One of two former inmates, Bou Meng sits outside the Tuol Sleng Museum selling copies of his biography, "A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21".