| Accession Number | P03258.431 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Negative |
| Maker |
Smith, Heide |
| Place made | Cambodia |
| Date made | 1993 |
| Conflict |
Period 1990-1999 Cambodia (UNTAC), 1992-1993 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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A small stream or drain cuts through the river bank to empty into the Tonle Sap River next to a ...
Description
A small stream or drain cuts through the river bank to empty into the Tonle Sap River next to a line of houseboats and shanty houses near the centre of Phnom Penh. Any unoccupied land adjoining the river has been settled or squatted on in the matter seen here and on the opposite bank, by many thousands of landless poor who returned after years of exile in the Thai border camps under the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) Repatriation program, to discover their former homes were already 'owned' and occupied; others have been displaced by fighting, landmines and rural poverty. Subject to annual inundation from monsoon flooding, conditions are generally unhygenic and the odour from these settlements is overpowering.