Outcry over photo-editing job on genocide victims

Sad reminder: A file pic of visitors looking at portraits of victims at the Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh. Cambodians slammed an Irish artist’s decision to add smiles to the pictures. — AFP

Those who lost family during the Khmer Rouge genocide slammed an Irish artist’s decision to digitally add smiles to old black and white pictures of victims killed by the regime.

The ultra-Maoist Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge installed a reign of terror from 1975 to 1979 that left an estimated two million Cambodians dead from starvation, hard labour, torture and mass executions.