Cambodia Genocide Pictures

Compiled by

Mr. Andrew T. Atkinson

Comrade Duch

                                

                                                                           Photograph ©2000 Stuart Isett/Corbis Sygma

Duch, head of the Tuol Sleng prison complex

Almost every family in Cambodia lost relatives to the Khmer Rouge

                                                                                                         

On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouges took over Phnom Penh.Cambodia ended its 5 years bloody civil war.

However, the worst had yet to come.

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            Cambodian people leaving Phnom Penh after Khmer Rouge forces seized and emptied the Cambodian capital on the17 April 1975. AFP

PHOTO/Agence Khmere de Presse

         

             

         

             

         

             

         

             

         

             

         

             

         

             

         

             

         

             A governmental soldier, carrying two children on his back, walks in a Phnom Penh street, 17 April 1975, the day Cambodia falls under the control of

the Communist Khmer Rouge forces.

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            

                  

            The Khmer Rouge guerrilla soldiers wearing

black uniforms, drive 17 April 1975 atop jeeps through a street of Phnom Penh.

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             The young Khmer Rouge guerrilla soldiers enter

Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975, the day Cambodia fell under the control of the Communist Khmer Rouge forces. The

Cambodian capital surrendered after a three and a half-month siege of Pol Pot forces.

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             

                 

             The young Khmer Rouge guerrilla soldiers carry mortar shells 17 April 1975 as they enter Phnom Penh, the day Cambodia fell under the control of

the Communist Khmer Rouge forces. The Cambodian capital surrendered after a three and

a half-month siege of Pol Pot forces.