His face shows his terror, but also something worse: knowledge of the terrible thing that is about to happen to him. It ran this and other photos from Tuol Sleng, the museum of the 1970s Khmer Rouge genocide, but colourized by chirpy young Irishman Matt Loughrey. (Tuol Sleng was once the site of Security Prison 21, or S-21, one of the brutal torture and execution centres of the Khmer Rouge.) In his memoir “The Gate,” François Bizot, a Frenchman imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge, describes the setting. “At times those abilities feel like gifts, and I am of the firm belief that is what sets my work apart.”Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading...Of the killing fields he escaped, Bizot says, “I have written in a bitterness that knows no limit.

Source: thestar April 19, 2021 09:56 UTC