Tuol Sleng

Surviving the Streets of Phnom Penh

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November 29th 2008
Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia. It's loud, filled with traffic, and polluted. PP is where the Khmer Rouge started their seige of Cambodia, emptying the city by force in April and telling people that they would be able to return in three days. Three million Cambodians (more or less) were living in PP at the time, so imagine a mass exodus. This was the KR's way of getting every Cambodian ... read more

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Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ... ... read more