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The Killing Fields
... listening and crying silently, myself included. Stories of women whose babies starved to death because they could only feed them at night because they worked all day and then still had little milk because they were starved themselves. Women who were raped and excommunicated by their village. People who were hacked to death for stealing 2 bananas because they were starving.
Who are these people that were able to work in the killing fields smashing babies against a ...
Phnom Penh - my gateway into Cambodia
... AK47. Crazy how easy these guns are easily available. $350 gets you an RPG! Met two Canadian-Kashmiris and shared a tuk tuk. Next spent close to 3 hours at the killing fields of Choeung Ek. Almost 20000 men, women and children were massacred here by the Pol Pot regime during the second half of the 70s. The place has a dark past and in the centre has a monument dedicated to those who lost their lives- with thousands of skulls organised on 10 shelves. A visit to ...
The Killing Fields
... where nobody would really go and whenever prisoners were sent there they were blindfolded and told that they were being re-housed as to not create panick in the prison.
What left us confused was S21 had been a school directly in the heart of Phnom Penh with houses and shops surrounding it and normal city roads passing right by. It makes you wonder how many people ignored it and pretended it wasn't there because surely they must have known what was happening.
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Ein Hauch von Frankreich in Asien
Es kribbelt wieder in den Füßen und so haben wir das Paradies verlassen - oder besser gesagt sind weitergezogen...nach eine kurzen Stopp in Trat mit dem Bus zur kambodschanischen Grenze. Wir haben im Vorfeld bereits wilde Geschichten über Schlepper gehört, die das x-fache für ein "Visum" verlangen und eine "Gesundheitsuntersuchung", die bis zu 10 USD kosten kann. Damit uns all das nicht passiert, haben wir das Visa vorweg per eVisa beantragt (geht ...
A city preparing for a funeral
... damage that is occuring to the temples and how this is being dealt with. The main point this raises is, on the basis that virtually all visitors to Cambodia go to Siem Reap to see the Angkor temples, why isn't this located in Siem Reap close to the source of most of the exhibits. (There is nothing similar at Siem Reap.)
After the museum it was a short walk to the riverfront where we were able to have ...