{"id":20057,"date":"2025-03-25T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/?post_type=osf_story&#038;p=20057"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:10:06","slug":"das-drama-der-ueberlebenden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.de\/en\/das-drama-der-ueberlebenden\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of a Lost Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"20057\" class=\"elementor elementor-20057 elementor-19970\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e99bf7 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2e99bf7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dba0cfe e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"dba0cfe\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a19970e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a19970e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBackground Report: Cambodia\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-690c550 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"690c550\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Images of a Lost Generation<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c79573 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8c79573\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA portrait series by Hannes Schmid about the Khmer Rouge takeover 50 years ago.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b5539c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8b5539c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The first rays of the day\u2019s sun fall on the streets of Phnom Penh as the morning\u2019s silence is torn apart by the ever-louder rumbling of heavy engines. Tank tracks clatter over the asphalt, their metal claws digging into the ground. Soldiers in black uniforms march through the streets. Their faces are expressionless, their weapons tightly gripped.<\/p><p>\u2028It\u2019s April 17, 1975. For weeks, the people of Phnom Penh had been waiting with tension for this day. The communist guerilla fighters of the Khmer Rouge, supported by China and North Korea, had taken the capital, and the Lon Nol government had been overthrown. But anyone who might have believed that the country would now be at peace was terribly mistaken. Dramatically mistaken.\u2028<\/p><p>Just a few hours after the invasion, the city is brutally evacuated. Allegedly, an attack by U.S. air forces is imminent. Allegedly. In truth, this is just the devious plan to drive the city\u2019s roughly two million inhabitants out into the countryside, where they could be better controlled.\u2028<\/p><p>The goal: To transform Cambodia into an agrarian communist society without cities, money, or private property. A utopia that, in the barely more than four years of the Pol Pot regime, would claim the lives of over 1.7 million people.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e787729 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e787729\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cHow can a country withstand the murder of around a quarter of its population by its own people? How long does it take for these wounds to heal? What memories do the survivors have of the regime and of the time before it?\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce06dae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ce06dae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It was questions like these that drove Hannes to interview some of the few truly elderly people that lived in the area surrounding the Smiling Gecko campus at the time of the Khmer Rouge and also to photograph them.<\/p><p>What resulted were truly striking portraits of a lost generation, to which Hannes assigned some of the most brutal statements he had heard about the terror regime.\u2028<\/p><p>We would like to share some of these images here in the Campus Magazine. All of these images will soon be displayed at our cultural center, \u201cThe Gong.\u201d We can\u2019t imagine a better place to allow the predominantly young people of the region a glimpse into the past.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6213fce e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c6213fce\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6213fce elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6213fce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1281\" height=\"1921\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HENG-MARM-0443.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-19975\" alt=\"Heng Marm\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HENG-MARM-0443.jpg 1281w, https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HENG-MARM-0443-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HENG-MARM-0443-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HENG-MARM-0443-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HENG-MARM-0443-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HENG-MARM-0443-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1281px) 100vw, 1281px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6588e3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c6588e3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00abYour survival is not a gain,<br>your death is not a loss.\u00bb<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b127a1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7b127a1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ccd1ab2e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ccd1ab2e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd1ab2e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"cd1ab2e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1281\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MORK-SANG-0352.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-19981\" alt=\"Mork Sang\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MORK-SANG-0352.jpg 1281w, https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MORK-SANG-0352-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MORK-SANG-0352-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MORK-SANG-0352-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MORK-SANG-0352-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/staging.smilinggecko.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MORK-SANG-0352-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1281px) 100vw, 1281px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19bb0cc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"19bb0cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00abOf course, you wonder: Why me? 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