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December 14th 2008

Today I went to see the killing fields which is a momorial area to the people who Pol Pot (the former Cambodian leader) had killed...there is a large monument to the dead, it is built on the former area of some of the death camps.

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Monument

This monument was built to comemerate the Dead from during Pol Pots reign
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Respect

You must show respect to the dead as they are buried all over this area.
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Skulls

These are skulls of some of the 1.5million people Pol Pot killed






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