Phnom Penh, A Sobering City

Another new country and another new attrocity to learn about. Cambodia was initially on our list of places to visit because of Angkor Watt. During the course of our travels a lot of people had let us know that Phnom Penh contained some interesting but harrowing things to see. After a day getting settled and arranging transport we decided that we should visit the Killing Fields and S21, a former primary school turned prison/interrogation camp. Some of the things that we learned were horrific to say the least, and the images that we have cannot do justice to the scale of destruction that was inflicted upon the Cambodian people in the late 1970's.

The photo to the right is of a shrine to commemorate some of those people slaughtered in and around Phnom Penh. Within this shrine there are a number of levels, each of which contains human remains dug up from the shallow graves discovered surrounding the area. As I said before, this place was harrowing...