Often when traveling around Cambodia and witnessing it's beauty and meeting friendly people it is easy to forget about it's recent troubled past. In the 1970's a communist government, the Khmer Rouge, came into power and brutally and senselessly murdered over 2 million Cambodians. Today I visited the Killing Fields, where over 20,000 people were murdered and buried in mass graves and S-21, a former school that was was used as a prison and torture center during the Khmer Rouge.
A memorial to those who died at the Killing Fields
S-21
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