Culture ministry: Take Tuol Sleng photos down, or else
Publication date 11 April 2021 | 18:47 | ICT

The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has told Irish photographer Matt Loughrey to take down the photos of Khmer Rouge victims at Tuol Sleng Genocidal Museum which he allegedly colourised and altered to show them smiling.

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