Though, between these two nearly identical knotted emblems
of relations to the Khmer Rouge past, one senses competing visions of identity—the one
confidently, if not with the relaxed demeanor of the victor, seeking “peace and reconciliation,”
the other bound in a tighter knot, stripping the kroma of human contact if not of
all biological determinism, and skeptical of any such happy ending.
The forensic photographs are not simply documentary—if any