We arrived into Cambodia at Phnom Penh, the capital city. Cambodia is culturally different again to Laos and Thailand, most notably due to the still very recent memory of the Khmer Rouge regime and the genocide committed there. It's estimated that over 2 million people were killed in this time, which means that almost everyone living in Cambodia today lost at least one family member. The Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, tried to transform Cambodia into a completely independent agrarian communist state, abolishing currency, education, hospitals and religion, and closing the border. Anyone who was seen to be against this way of life, for example, educated people, foreigners, or even those who wore glasses, were killed. Children of those people were also killed to avoid vengeance being taken in the future. We saw some pretty
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