Amnesty International of the USA, Inc. Cambodia Witness Exhibit, 1981-1987.

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Amnesty International of the USA, Inc. Cambodia Witness Exhibit, 1981-1987.

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The bulk of the collection consists of both black & white and color photographs used in the Cambodia Witness Exhibit (1983). The first series contains two paper files of material related to the exhibit. The first file contains the exhibit brochure and the catalog list of exhibit materials. The catalog list includes a number, title and caption for all exhibit items, except for three "optional" photographs of executed prisoners and a map of Cambodia. The second file contains documentation on the exhibit kept by its coordinator, Joan Libby. Other files on the Cambodia Witness Exhibit may be found in other record groups of the archives of Amnesty International of the USA, Inc. The second series contains the exhibit material. The photographs are filed using the titles, numbers and original order described by the exhibit's catalog list. The three "optional" exhibit photographs and the map are filed last. The photographs document several subjects: Tuol Sleng (Images of the interior and exterior of the prison); prisoners (Images of entry photographs and of executed prisoners taken from existing records in Cambodia); survivors (Images include surviving prisoners, Buddhist monks and nuns, and Cham, an ethnic minority); mass graves and memorials (Images of sites at Cheung Ek, Tonle Bati, Ta Mon, and Siem Reap); and destroyed religious buildings (Images are predominantly of destroyed Buddhist temples. There is one image of the site of a destroyed Catholic cathedral). The exhibit text panels will be scanned and copies included in the collection for use and reference.

1 Linear Foot (52 Photographs, 1 map, and 2 Files in 3 Oversized Boxes; text Panels in 1 Oversized Box)

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7279641

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Party of Democratic Kampuchea

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Tuol Sleng (Prison : Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

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Hawk, David R.

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Amnesty international USA

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Amnesty International (AI), a non-governmental organization (NGO), was founded in 1961 to campaign for internationally recognized human rights. In its early years, the main focus of AI's campaigns was to free prisoners of conscience. Within a short time, its mandate expanded to include campaigning for prompt and fair trails for all political prisoners, to end extrajudicial executions and disappearances, and to abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment or punishmen...