Photographs by Bill Burke /
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
It’s been almost 30 years since the Khmer Rouge was overthrown and forced to retreat into the jungle after killing more than a million Cambodians. Bill Burke has been visiting the country ever since, interviewing and photographing both Khmer Rouge leaders and victims, rebels and refugees. As his work shows, the scars of Cambodia’s conflict linger to this day. But with the war crimes trials in Phnom Penh, the nation’s bitter past--never forgotten but never addressed--may, at last, get some sort of reckoning.
