Description
Win-Win Monument bas-relief
This photographs provides a view of a bas-relief on the 117-meter-long engraved base of the Win-Win Monument. It depicts the defection of Khmer Rouge soldiers to the Cambodian government, with Hun Sen welcoming defectors (their decommissioned weapons below) and giving a speech at Angkor Wat.
The Win-Win Monument complex – photographed here in January 2020 – was inaugurated in December 2018 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the end of the post-Democratic Kampuchea civil war, with the final defection of the remaining Khmer Rouge factions, thanks to the DIFID policy (“Divide, Isolate, Finish, Integrate, Develop”) also known as the “Win Win” policy of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Date
- January 2020
Medium
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Photograph
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Theme
- Win-Win Monument
Case Studies
- Spatial Politics of Identity in Cambodia
Keywords
- Cambodia, Hun Sen, Khmer Rouge, monument
Further information
Permissions/Acknowledgements
Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier
COTCA Identifier
SBG-013