http://blog.magnumphotos.com/2007/12/the_khmer_chronicles_issue_nr_4_gathering_pace.html en Copyright 2008 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:13:31 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss It has been a busy month in Cambodia. Things around and at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal itself have taken an accelerated pace with the arrests of Ieng Sary and his wife Ieng Thirith, of Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea and probably others in the pipeline. But most of all the first public hearings took place regarding the appeal against his detention of Kang Guek Eav, alias Duch, in charge of the S21 interrogation center during the Pol Pot regime. © John Vink/Magnum Photos It is the first time Duch appeared in public since over 8 years, and there was a long line of people at the entrance of the courtroom. They filled the hall where two big screens showed what happened in the crammed pretrial chambers nearby. Press photographers and cameramen were alllowed five minutes at the beginning of two hearings. The first time we were about sixty and inevitably there was some pushing and shoving. Luckily it was in my back... The second time, before the judges would tell Duch he would stay in prison, things were better organised and only five photographers were allowed in, pooling for those who had to stay outside. The light in the pretrial chamber was kind of gloomy neon. It was a weird impression to stand two or three meters from someone who is tried for crimes against humanity and who is accused of being responsible for the death of some 15000 people. It is weird because he is just an old man, with glassy eyes looking at us, late at standing up when the judges come in, but seemingly healthier looking than eight years ago. It is as if the monster has disappeared with the system which created it...]]> http://blog.magnumphotos.com/2007/12/the_khmer_chronicles_issue_nr_4_gathering_pace.html http://blog.magnumphotos.com/2007/12/the_khmer_chronicles_issue_nr_4_gathering_pace.html <p>this one is a good photo. it combines art photography added with journalism</p> http://blog.magnumphotos.com/2007/12/the_khmer_chronicles_issue_nr_4_gathering_pace.html#comment-10253 <p>Curious about the outcome. The Khmer have delayed justice for so long...difficult to imagine it will be rendered now. This said, relatively small potatoes such as Duch could get what they deserve and the big potatoes could live out their lives in tranquility. Such is the way of the world....</p> http://blog.magnumphotos.com/2007/12/the_khmer_chronicles_issue_nr_4_gathering_pace.html#comment-10838