At Camp 007 on the Cambodian-Thai border, a ten-year-old Khmer Serai soldier poses with his weapons. The Khmer Serai, the 'free Cambodians,' were the last Cambodians to fight both the Khmer rouge forces of former President Pol Pot and the Vietnamese…
In Jan. 1979, the Cambodian government of Pol Pot fell to Vietnamese forces and Cambodian rebels, and thousands of refugees began to flee the country. In Sa Kaew, Thailand, Eddie Adams photographed these children inside a field hospital.
The face of a mother with her child in a Sa Kaew refugee camp in Thailand reflect the despair felt by many of the Cambodians forced to flee their homes and their country.
In the intensive-care ward of the refugee camp at Khao-I-Dang, the face of a badly malnourished Cambodian child reflects the sorrow felt by the thousands of homeless refugees.