After the wonders of Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, we headed South to Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. In 1975, under the leadership of Pol Pot, the Ultra Communist Khymer Rouge Party assumed power in Cambodia. Four years later they were overthrown by invading Vietnamese forces. In that time, it is estimated that between 0.85 and 3 million deaths (depending on which report you read) were caused by the social engineering carried out under the Khymer Rouge regime. Before immersing ourselves too deeply in the country's tragic history, we decided to do a little research by heading to a shooting range to try out some firemarms for ourselves. The noise of one rifle is deafening, fighting a war must be unimaginable. From the shooting range, we visited the Killing Fields - a site just outside the city where
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