A Change of Guard

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Friday 2 December 2011

‘Missing Arms, Legs, Fathers and Mothers’


DESCRIPTION: Maureen Lambray, The Sangker River. Mines planted along rivers maim and kill Cambodians fishing or washing. Boat men who dive into the water to untangle the reeds from the propellers are also at risk.

December 1, 2011,
The New York Times
By SETH MYDANS
Read original article and seem slideshow at The New York Times blog.

The scars of Cambodia’s wars and genocide are more than psychic: this little nation in the heart of Southeast Asia is one of the most densely mined places on earth. And like those mines, the legacy of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge exacts a constant — and hidden — toll, leaving the country mostly poor, politically repressive, corrupt and violent.

It was only last month that a trial of the three surviving Khmer Rouge leaders got under way, reviving buried memories for many traumatized Cambodians.

In her meditation on the scars of war in Cambodia, “War Remnants of the Khmer Rouge” (Umbrage Books, October 2011), the photographer Maureen Lambray has chosen to emphasize portraits of badly maimed victims of the land mines that were mostly laid during the wars that preceded and followed the Khmer Rouge rule. The quiet mood of her carefully composed and lit portraits of land-mine victims, as they stare intently into the camera, belies the horror of their mutilation.Seth Mydans covers Southeast Asia for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune.

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