Hello!! Just to let you know, I'm not going to start with the most pleasant of write ups, but I believe its something not to be forgotten. Well, where do I start...We traveled from Saigon to Phnom Phen by bus. We spent a couple of days here. We visited the Killing fields and S21. Under the Khmer Rouge, the route to the killing fields was via an interrogation centre. The most infamous was Phnom Penh's S-21 Prison. In 1976, the Khmer Rouge took over the what was a high school and named it Security prison 21 (S21) and turned it into a torture, interrogation and execution centre. About 1,720 workers controlled the prison. Most of the personnel were boys and girls from peasant backgrounds ranging from ten to nineteen years of age who were trained to
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