A young boy who accompanied Australian photographer Heide Smith and journalist Marje Prior into a ...

A young boy who accompanied Australian photographer Heide Smith and journalist Marje Prior into a Buddhist meditation cave where the Khmer Rouge brought their victims and killed them with a blow to the back of their head, before dumping their bodies through a hole in the roof of the cave. He is standing in front of a huge pile of skulls and other skeletal remains heaped onto a long low shelf against the wall of the cave, which forms the focus for prayers and offerings to the victims. Located on a hill near the resurrected Turtle Wat community on the road from Battambang to Pailin, this site had previously been used for centuries as a place of rest and contemplation. Smith and Prior visited Cambodia in January and August 1993 to document Australian involvement with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), later publishing a book entitled 'Shooting at the Moon - Cambodian Peacekeepers tell their stories'.