The Killing Tree

The Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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November 26th 2009
Today we visited the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek which is situated 15km out of Phnom Penh city. This is where most of the 17,000 detainees held at the S-21 prison (Tuol Sleng Museum), were brought to be executed. Now a very quiet and peaceful place, it really is controversy to the atrocities that happened here. There is an enormous Stupa, with a glass tower containing 8000 human skulls from the ... 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