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Cambodia’s Quest for Peace

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  • The exterior of one detention building at S-21 -- barbed wire running up to the third floor prevented prisoners from jumping to their deaths.
  • Detention cells at S-21
  • Mass graves at the ‘Killing Fields’ outside of Phnom Penh, where S-21 detainees were taken to be killed.
  • Skulls excavated from the Killing Fields
  • Cambodian observers gather for lunch outside the court during a break at the tribunal
  • Cambodian observers during a break outside the tribunal
  • Him Huy making tea at his house
  • Him Huy with one of the cows he takes care of
  • Him Huy with his nine-year-old son sleeping in the background

This slideshow accompanies Elena Lesley’s dispatch from Cambodia. To read the caption of each photograph, drag your cursor down the top of the screen. Photographs by Elena Lesley and Joel Rozen.

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