We arrived in Cambodia at Phnom Penh, the capital, booked into the first hostel we saw and then set off for a light afternoon at Toul Sleng Genocide Museum. Formerly a high school, the Khmer Rouge (Pol Pot's party) took control of it and turned it into a prison (S21) at which thousands of people, mainly Cambodians (including women and children) were detained and eventually killed. Like I said, a light afternoon. The Museum isn't a museum in the traditional sense of the word, you're completely free to wander around the prison, into all the cells and buildings and all round the grounds, to see whatever you want. It's possibly the most depressing place i've ever been, and we spent nearly 3 hours there, reading stories and first hand accounts from prisoners and guards and looking
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