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One of several cell blocks. Most radiated from a central area like a huge flower. Though the architectural style was built to resemble a mediaeval fortress. You would not want to be interred here, particularly in its first 100 years.
Out in the countryside near Mandalay the land is very fertile and there are many products grown for the markets. This young man was plowing in bare feet with a very basic plow and stopping to check his cell phone.
Inside the monastrery of Panagia Evaggelistria (Virgin Mary Annunciation) in Paleo Trikeri, Greece. Aka Trikeri Island, Paleo Trikeri is a 4.5km2 island in the Pagasitic gulf, at the tip of the Pelion peninsula. Although the year-round population today amounts to a few tenths, the tiny island has “accommodated” thousands of people at a time in the last century. At the end of the second Balkan war, in 1913, an estimated 3500 Bulgarian prisoners of war were held here, in what has been described as the first concentration camp in Europe. In 1946, antifascist political prisoners, who participated in the EAM-ELAS resistance movement during the second World War were held in camps on Paleo Trikeri; after the men were relocated, the camp was used for female pro-communist political prisoners, and women who had not participated in the civil war themselves, but who denied to denounce their family members who did. In 1948 an estimated 500 women were held here, but the number of women and children in the summer of the next year reached 4700, following a new wave of arrests and the transfer of prisoners from the camp of Chios.
Cell No. 8 is but a meek attempt to bring back the unfathomable horror of Tuol Sleng to the mind's eye.
The prison (code name: S-21) in the heart of Phnom Pen served the Khmer Rouge as a torture and interrogation camp mainly of former cadres who fell from the Party's favour. 17.000 prisoners were neatly registered, photographed ... and killed. The sources speak of only twelve documented survivors.
Thus was the path leading to a classless and just society of equals without oppression. When i read about these four years (1975 to 1979) of Communist rule the sublime horror seemed to condense in the ghastly notion of ANGKA ("the Organization").
For the first two years of Khmer Rouge regime, most Cambodians had no idea who was running the country. The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), the political movement behind the Khmer Rouge, believed that secrecy was one of the best tools for controlling the population. The Cambodian people didn't even know the CPK existed. All they were told was that the country was now run by Angka. (Source)
Tuol Sleng was a prison in the centre of a deserted ghost town. The very day after taking control of the capital the soldiers ordered its total evacuation. Everybody without exception had to follow one of the treks towards any of the work and re-education camps established far away from the "bourgeois" cities. These policies of forced relocation of the population from urban centres, torture, mass executions, use of forced labor, and malnutrition led to the deaths of an estimated 25 percent of the total population (around 2 million people). (Source)
Comrade Duch who was the commander of Tuol Sleng prison faced a life sentence only in 2012. The court cases against other surviving Khmer Rouge leaders are still pending. They are now between 80 and 90 years old. Some have lived a snug life in Phnom Pen for so many years. Two of them appealed against their life sentence in 2014 claiming that they did not receive a fair trial. (Source)
The image is an overlay of two photos taken at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
Peugeot Expert Cell Van Police Demonstrator Blue and Amber light Exhibition National Association of Police fleet managers NAPFM conference Telford June 2015
The base photos used here, slightly modified by me of course, were from cell cultures done by Elizabeth Normand here at Brown University. The cells are transfected with proteins that fluoresce if the protein is expressed by the cell and much of the color you see is merely enhanced but not changed.
A prison cell in Kilmainham Gaol. Shot through a peep hole in the door.
The tours at Dublin Castle and Kilmainham Gaol complemented each other nicely, and offered interesting information about the events that led to Irish independence.
EDIT: This is my most blogged photo. Some examples from the referrer stats (and there must be more, because not everyone links back to this page):
Normal blood cells (left) and the blood cells in Sickle cell disease, which do not flow through the circulatory system smoothly.
Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI.
Photograph taken through cell door, H Division, Pentridge Gaol, Coburg, Melbourne. 05/06/2025. iPhone 11 Pro Max
Fort Brockhurst Prison Cell - 1860
I can't explain how uneasy just being in this old Army cell made me feel. It was a very uncomfortable feeling. It was dark and damp and impossible to see out of the high level window. Deeply intimidating.
The dark green moss on the arched ceiling highlighting just how damp the cells were. This was because the roofs of the buildings were covered with several feet of soil as protection against shell and mortar fire. The downside being - the ceilings and walls were like basements, surrounded by soil.
I don't suppose it was worth saying to the Army doctor, "I don't think those mould spores will do my chest and lungs any good. Please let me out of the cell."