Daniella’s Reviews > Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide > Status Update

A quote from Soth Polin: “As I said before about the Khmer Rouge: you cannot get past it. You resuscitate a painful past, and you have to talk about it. You cannot pass over it. This is a lesson for humanity: not let it happen again—that atrocity and that cruelty. Maybe this is why I cannot finish my writing: b/c of this story. B/c of this, I lost my inspiration. B/c the reality surpasses the imagination.”