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The Killing Fields, Genocide Museum and Spiderville

November 13th 2015
Sokum our guide is just one year older than me. When he was 8 years old, his family was separated and he had to work in the fields gathering buffalo dung for fertiliser so that he could earn a bowl of rice a day, the rice being mainly water and more like gruel. During the three years, eight months and twenty days of Khymer Rouge Tyranny, 16 members of his family were killed by the Government of De ... read more

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I started these blogs as a record for myself- something to read and comfort me when I'm old, cold and broke, wondering where all my money went... With time, my blogs have developed as it turned out other people were reading them! This has inspired me to improve my writing (well I try) and add more photos. I hope you enjoy reading my blogs and please do leave comments. The photos in the blog are taken on my phone, but when I return home, I always have lots of images from my DSLR, that I upload to Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wadeyc ... full info

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