This picture shows a group of soldiers and foreign visitors (including journalists) surrounding Heng Samrin (chairman of the People’s Revolutionary Council of the PRK) and Pen Sovan (Secretary-General of the Kampuchea People’s Revolutionary Party). The presence of foreign press and visitors might indicate that the photograph was taken in Phnom Penh at the time of the People’s Revolutionary Tribunal that prosecuted in absentia the ‘Pol Pot-Ieng Sary clique’ for genocidal crimes (15-19 August 1979).

This photograph is part of the collection held by the Agence Khmère de Presse (AKP) and Cambodia’s Ministry of Information. This collection, which documents the early years of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea as photographed by the Vietnamese and a small team of Cambodian photographers, has not yet been classified or indexed.