https://foundcambodia.com Fri, 20 Mar 2015 01:56:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.2 https://foundcambodia.com/p/the-meaning-then-and-the-meaning-now/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-meaning-then-and-the-meaning-now Fri, 02 Jan 2015 03:42:16 +0000 http://alpha.foundcambodia.com/?post_type=foundcambodia_photos&p=165 ” I saw my neighbour was making a photograph of the children in the village, they called me to join. I was told to dress accordingly so I borrowed some clothes. There were a lot of Khmer Rouge around but they where not strict, however they did ask the villagers to dress the same. The black clothing looked powerful, those who wore black were part of  group, part of the Khmer Rouge. The poor were asked first and it give us power. I loved the black clothing then but now I hate it as it reminds me of a hard life of slavery and poverty.. When the Khmer Rouge took power they killed the neighbour who made the photograph of us because of his education.”

]]> https://foundcambodia.com/p/the-family/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-family Fri, 02 Jan 2015 02:50:24 +0000 http://alpha.foundcambodia.com/?post_type=foundcambodia_photos&p=163 (L to R) 1.”My Mother Chan Chhov, at the time of the Khmer Rouge she was moved from one area to another in Kampong Cham. Mother had to work really hard carrying bags of rice. No one dared to say anything you just did as you were told we feared death we had no rights.” 2. Ngouv Sok “My father always told us to keep quite, not to say anything.”
3. Ngouv Meng ” In 1975 at the beginning he was called by the soldiers … he never came back.” 4. Ngouv Noy Hoy ” My sister had her own family and she was relocated with them under the Khmer Rouge. Just like everyone else she kept quiet and worked.” NOTE: Images are from various dates, ages and appearances vary, in this constructed family portrait.

]]> https://foundcambodia.com/p/the-khmer-rouge-sandals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-khmer-rouge-sandals Thu, 01 Jan 2015 08:44:49 +0000 http://alpha.foundcambodia.com/?post_type=foundcambodia_photos&p=143 ” This photograph was made in 1981, it’s of me and my husband, we were married in 1979 after the Khmer Rouge. My cousin took this photograph in our village in Prey Veng Province.  My cousin was part of the Khmer Rouge but he abandoned the fight. We still wore sandals from the Khmer Rouge, we had nowhere to buy new shoes. The sandals lasted for many years, during the Khmer Rouge I only got through two pairs and I only had to replace the straps never the soles. I still know how to make them, just give me a tyre.”

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