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29-Jun-2007 16:46
What incomparable sadness in these ravaged statues, with their downcast eyes and fragmented bodies -- it is the only appropriate response to the brutality of Pol Pot's regime. But this photo, mute evidence of the mindless horror during those years, also seems a testimonial to the sweet brightness that is possible in the human mind when forgiveness is present. Despite the terrible suffering, here are two still "upright" figures, broken almost unto death, but yet still able to show the great compassion and serenity that Buddhism -- a triumph of mind over matter -- offers. These are representative of the collective will of the surviving population, which though scarred, broken, even shattered, still rise up and into the light to claim their own humanity. An amazing, beautiful, vastly poignant photo, one of an unflinching look at genocide in all its unspeakable ugliness.
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