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Catching Up With Cambodia

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March 10th 2010
Our final week in Southeast Asia took us through Cambodia where we met up with a retired Whitehorse teaching buddy in Phnom Penh. The infamous sites documenting the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, notably the Killing Fields and the S21 Jail were a sobering experience and certainly gave us an in-depth understanding of the scope and scale of Cambodians' suffering under Pol Pot's regime. Contrastin ... read more

Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh

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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