A red roofed display board which sits at the entrance to the killing fields of Choeung Ek, ...

Accession Number P03258.353
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Smith, Heide
Place made Cambodia
Date made 1993
Conflict Period 1990-1999
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
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Description

A red roofed display board which sits at the entrance to the killing fields of Choeung Ek, located about 15 kilometres south east of Phnom Penh, where the shallow graves of over 10,000 victims of Khmer Rouge genocide were discovered after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in January 1979. The display gives a brief history of Cambodia's period of autogenocide and shows images of some of the victims of Tuol Sleng prison, where enemies of the regime were tortured for weeks on end, and who ended up at Choeung Ek where they were executed. The photograph in the left foreground is apparently of David Lloyd Scott, one of the two Australians unfortunate enough to have been captured, tortured and executed by the Khmer Rouge, who extracted false confessions of spying from him and his fellow Australian, Ronald Dean. At least nine other westerners from the United States, France, New Zealand and England are known to have suffered the same fate.

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