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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[1068]

-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]

Leaving Surin and the start of my travels.

CAMBODIA | Mon, 21 Oct 2013 | By rutha90 | Views [1807]

Quick update since it's been so long since I wrote in here!! My days of teaching have come to an end... It was sad saying goodbye to the kids, and the other teachers I'd been working with. But, I was glad to be out of Surin! I crossed ... Read more >

Tags: border crossings, cooking, khmer, markets, pol pot, relax, tragic

Cambodia's Dark Past

CAMBODIA | Thu, 2 Jun 2011 | By mpreece7 | Views [953]

A school is a place where people can better their lives through education. School can lead to a good job with a good house and a well looked after family. So how does a place of learning turn into one of horror and torture? S-21 in Phnom Penh ... Read more >

Tags: cambodia, depressing, genocide, phnom penh, pol pot, sad, southeast asia, the killing fields, torture, violence

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