Drawings of Bun Heang Ung

Permanent URI for this collectionhttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/9179

These are digitised images from the collection of 90 original artworks by Bun Heang Ung in collaboration with Phiny Ung. 90 of the artworks make up a set of drawings that records visually their experiences under the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979. Each piece is signed and captioned. Many have handwritten comments in script behind.Also in this collection, is a map of Maesar Prachan, drawn in 2012 from memory.

Also included is an ABC Canberra TV news item from 20/9/2012 documenting the presentation of the collection to the University.

Khmer Rouge art donated to ANU - ABC TV News ACT 20 September 2012

Many of the artworks have been published elsewhere: Stuart-Fox, M. and Ung, B. (1985) The Murderous Revolution: Life & Death in Pol Pot's Kampuchea. Chippendale, N.S.W.: Alternative Publishing Cooperative Limited; and on www.khmerrouge-toons.blogspot.com.au (accessed August 2012).

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Video - Khmer Rouge art donated to ANU - ABC TV News ACT 20_09_2012
(ABC) Nairn, Jessica
ABC Canberra news broadcast 20/9/2012 of the ceremony attending the presentation of drawings of Bun Heang Ung to the Australian National University
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Map of Maesar Prachan, Pearang, Prey Veng
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
Original of Maesar Prachan's map, the hamlet where we were settled during the KR period.
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No.58 Pushing for rice production at night after a short evening meal break from the day work at the rice field.
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
Pushing for rice production at night after a short evening meal break from the day work at the rice field. The petroleum lantern is utilised for lighting during the work.
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No.38 A woman was treated after giving birth
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
A woman was treated after gave birth to her new born. She's lain down on a bamboo bed to receive extra heat from the make shift fire underneath of up to 38-40 degree C. The midwife usually an elderly woman was trained by a close relative who passed the skill on from generation, and doesn't have modern equipment to use during the delivery. The most sanitation is the hot boiling water to clean her rusted scissor to cut the baby's umbilical cord. Natural herbal medicine was provided by the Angka's nurse who comes to visit the mother and baby.
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No.90 People passing the ruins of Angkor Wat, heading for the Thai border to escape starvation in 1979
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.89 Checkpoint on the way to the Thai border
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.88 New seminars under Vietnamese control
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.87 Phnom Penh on their return
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.86 New population movements back to cities
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.85 Heng Samrin troops preventing civilians from entering Phnom Penh, while Vietnamese let them in for foreign press to see
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.84 Vietnamese transporting equipment from Phnom Penh to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.83 Celebrating the liberation of Kampuchea from the Khmer Rouge under the watchful eye of Vietnamese soldiers
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.82 Arrival of the Vietnamese
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.81 People of Maesar Prachan, with help of Khmer Blanc, turn on retreating Khmer Rouge troops and massacre them
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.80 Khmer Rouge order evacuation of village, shooting of anyone who tried to escape
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.79 Listening to broadcast from Voice of America, the BBC and Vietnam
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.78 Khmer Rouge cadres with the belongings of those they had killed. NB-their girlfriends
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.77 Massacres at the district hospital
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.76 Boats take civilians to place of massacre
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang
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No.75 Central Army troops round up all cadres in Maesar Prachan prior to their execution.
(The Australian National University) Ung, Bunheang

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