SWD 4

Cambodian mom & infant, murdered by Khmer Rouge soldiers at S-21, the Tuol Sleng killing center

Art: 2005
Media: Ink on paper, mounted on etching paper
Framed, 21 1/4 inches H x 29 1/2 W [68 cm H x 93 W]

Drawn from a photo on page 86 in A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, by Samantha Power, published by Basic Books, NY, 2002.

1 min., 50 sec. video of the drawing

During the years of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, around 20,000 prisoners were murdered in the S-21 killing center, also called the Tuol Sleng center.

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The Wikipedia website entry for Tuol Sleng inaccurately describes the murders of political prisoners as having been "killed." People are killed in storms and in accidents. When civilians are deliberately murdered, they are not killed, they are murdered. The distinction is important. Viewers are urged to go to Wikipedia's edit and change the words as seen throughout the page from killed to murdered.