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 Asia » Cambodia » Phnom Penh By Pip and Jess s Just so stories
March 7th 2007
Pip & JessPhnom Penh - city of beggars and baguettes.
This was a beautiful city, full of French influences and disintegrating grandeur, but you cannot escape being haunted by it's history of blood and violence.

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Transport Cambodian style...
every time we took a photo we were given beautiful smiles and waves....

paddies
I just can't get over the colour of paddy fields!

Cheong Ek Killing fields
we can't do Cambodia justice without including a little history.

Cheong Ek Killing fields 2
What used to be an orchard became fields of mass graves for thousands of Cambodians.

Memorial Stupa
Skulls collected from the mass graves unearthed. Many still remain under the soil.

photos of inmates at the S21 prison
Political prisoners (intellectuals, soldiers, people who wore glasses!, govt. officials etc) and their entire families were held here and tortured before being taken to Cheong Ek to be murdered.