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Killing Fields of Choeung Ek

30/01/2017

Phnom Penh Part 3: the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek & Tuol Sleng Museum

We only really went to Phnom Penh for two places, and those places are horrible. But I’d be a terrible person if I didn’t talk about it, so… SOME HISTORY: in 1975 a radical communist group, the Khmer Rouge, seized power of Cambodia’s government with a vision to turn Cambodia into a ‘communist agrarian utopia’,… Continue reading

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Killing Fields of Choeung Ek

Phnom Penh Part 3: the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek & Tuol Sleng Museum