Today was kind of a solemn morning. We visited S21 (security office 21) and the Killing Fields. S21, was a high school which was converted into a torture chamber during the Pol Pot regime. At anytime during 1975 and 1978 it held about 1200 and 1500 prisoners. From this facility the vicitms were often transfered to the killing fields where they were killed and laid in mass graves. The site we visited had 129 mass graves, of which, only 86 had been excavated. Of these 86 mass graves, over 9000 bodies were discovered. It was very sobering to walk through these fields and still see clothing, teeth, and bone shards lying around these fields. After our morning trip, Lauren and I visited the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda, where the royal ashes are held and a
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