Ankor thom

8th day

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April 11th 2010
Today was not a nice day. We spent half of it at the S21 torture prison that Poll Pots regime ran here in Phnom Pen and then we went out to the Killing fields where they finished the job. The population of Cambodia was 7 million when Pol Pot cam to power and only 4 million by the time the Vietnamese liberated Cambodia of his scourge. I will not describe the day in any detail as it was overall a v ... read more

Asia » Cambodia

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Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ... ... read more