Doctored genocide photos condemned
‘INSULT’: An Irish artist’s project that digitally adds color and smiles to the black-and-white photos of victims of Pol Pot’s regime has drawn a backlash in Cambodia
AFP, PHNOM PENH
Cambodians who lost family during the Khmer Rouge genocide on Sunday slammed an Irish artist’s decision to digitally add smiles to old black-and-white pictures of victims killed by the regime.
The Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge installed a reign of terror from 1975 to 1979 that left an estimated 2 million Cambodians dead from starvation, hard labor, torture and mass executions.
The brutal regime took photographs of thousands of its victims including those sent to Tuol Sleng, or S-21 a former high school in Phnom Penh that was converted into a prison.
Bad buzz: Il fait sourire les victimes des Khmers rouges après leur mort
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Il fait sourire les victimes des Khmers rouges
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Cambodian civil servants told not getting vaccinated could be a firing offence
published : 10 Apr 2021 at 17:35
4 A woman buys a box of traditional medicine from a vendor, as they are separated by a length of rope to create social distancing, in Phnom Penh on Friday. (AFP Photo)
PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened quarantine-breakers with jail time on Saturday and warned civil servants they could lose their jobs if they go unvaccinated, as the country grapples with a growing coronavirus caseload.
In the past two days the country has registered more than 1,000 infections many among garment workers and market vendors bringing the tally to 4,081 cases and 26 deaths since the pandemic began last year.
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