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-Left Behind-
This image was taken at the sobering Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. A high school before the Khmer Rouge Regime in the `70s turned it into the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21), it saw an estimated 17,000 people were tortured and imprisoned in just four short years. Of that 17,000 only seven people survived. This cell, constructed in an old classroom, held officers of the Khmer Rouge after their own leaders turned on them. Beds (and sometimes bloodstains) are pretty much kept how they were found when the UN came to Cambodia and intervened. by: tyson Views[1067]

-The Innocent-
This image was taken at the Choeung Ek Killing Field site. An orchard and Chinese graveyard before the Khmer Rouge regime in the `70s turned it into a killing field, it houses a Buddhist stupa which displays more than 5,000 human skulls that have been unearthed. An estimated 17,000 people were brutally executed at the Choeung Ek killing field site alone, including women, children and even babies. As you walk through the fields you can still see human bones coming up through the dirt. by: tyson Views[767]

Speaking Skulls. If only they could give us an account as to what happened to their skin. by: surajputhane Views[380]

Cambodia - Phnom Penh

CAMBODIA | Thu, 9 Oct 2014 | By megandrob | Views [462]

Our plane trip to Vietnam was awesome. We got emergency exit seats, so we had soooo much leg room. It made me wish it was a longer flight. After the horrible one we had from Korea to Vietnam, it was pure luxury! We arrived in Phnom Penh just after 1pm, ... Read more >

Tags: khmer rouge, killing fields, palace, phnom penh, toul sleng

El Khmer Rouge

CAMBODIA | Sat, 19 Jul 2014 | By miguel_rubi | Views [460]

La visita a Phnom Penh fue triste y desgastante, dado que la capital de Camboya es una de las cicatrices más grandes que quedaron del Khmer Rouge. Hoy en día, las prisiones y campos de exterminio se explotan como sitios turísticos, ... Read more >

Tags: choeung ek, genocidio, khmer rouge, phnom penh, s-21

Battambang, Cambodia

CAMBODIA | Tue, 2 Oct 2012 | By sglass | Views [1431]

We decided to move on to see more of Cambodia and Battambang was highly recommended as the next best stop after Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. So after another death-defying bus ride we made it to the town. Battambang is supposedly the 2nd largest city in ... Read more >

Tags: bamboo train, battambang, cambodia, khmer rouge, killing caves, macaques

Photos: Phnom Penh

CAMBODIA | Thu, 5 Jul 2012 | By sglass | Photo Gallery

Photos from the Cambodian capital
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Tags: cambodia, khmer rouge, national cambodian museum, phnom penh, royal palace, s21 prison, silver pagoda

The Killing Fields

CAMBODIA | Wed, 17 Aug 2011 | By surajputhane | Views [803]

There are times when I feel am an opportunist coz am trying to capture some horrid truths and gain sympathy for my work and in the process become popular...taking photographs around the killing fields was one such time. I feel guilty putting ... Read more >

Tags: cambodia, genocide, khmer rouge, killing fields, phnom penh

Mr. Sam

CAMBODIA | Sat, 12 Jun 2010 | By ayec20 | Views [420]

Mr. Sam, our tour guide, is around 5’6” tall, light brown, lean, and speaks good English. He’s already in his 50’s but he doesn’t look it. He looks younger, which for me, is amazing. He was a survivor of the civil war and Khmer Rouge occupation. ... Read more >

Tags: cambodia, khmer rouge, siem reap

The Killing Fields

CAMBODIA | Tue, 23 Feb 2010 | By sarahreinertsen | Views [694]

To begin to understand Cambodia you must first face its tragic, horrific, recent past. Buddha near Royal Palace, Phnom Penh A brief and probably inadequate overview of recent Cambodian history: Post-colonial Cambodia saw a military ... Read more >

Tags: cambodia, khmer rouge, pol pot

Battambang - Beautiful Cambodian Countryside

CAMBODIA | Thu, 15 Jan 2009 | By jciecko | Views [1262]

After fighting our way through hordes of tourists in Siem Reap, we wanted to see the countryside of Cambodia. Battambang seemed like the logical choice since we’d get to travel there by boat and make day trips into the fertile farming lands surrounding ... Read more >

Tags: battambang, khmer rouge, phnom banan, phnom sampeon, river villages

The Killing Fields

CAMBODIA | Sat, 19 Apr 2008 | By rosibud | Views [1097]

It’s difficult to put into words what we saw the other day. It’s difficult in anyway to understand what the Cambodian people have been through. Actually I find it impossible to grasp. In 1975, after 5 years of civil war, The Khmer ... Read more >

Tags: cambodia, genocide, khmer rouge, the killing fields