ira on September 21st, 2003

In Phnom Penh you are never far from reminders of Pol Pot’s reign of terror. In Phnom Penh itself, Pol Pot’s psychopathic minions converted a former high school into a central torture center.  Where students once studied and played, tools of torture replaced the tools of learning. The metal beds, blood-stained floors, and grim implements […]

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ira on September 21st, 2003

Phnom Penh I’ve threatened long enough to tell about our trip to Cambodia from 08/29-09/2/2003, so–belatedly– here goes, and it’s definitely out of chronological order.  We visited Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. back in late August, early September. For us, the highpoints around Phnom Penh were the loathsome Khmer Rouge killing fields, the cultural and […]

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