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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.
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