Throughout Cambodia you can see the aftermath of their bloody civil war led by
the Khmer Rouge - an estimated 3 million Cambodians died during the civil war
and during the subsequent reign of Pol Pot. Now that peace has returned to
the country there are monuments
built to remember the past and commemorate the people that were killed.
With the emergence of tourism in the country,
the "killing fields" have become major tourist attractions.
The killing fields in Phnom Penh, like other places in
Cambodia, consists of the remains of many, many people.
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At the killing fields of Phnom Penh, you can also see the pits that were the
mass graves and where the remains were exhumed.
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This is Tuol Sleng prison - once a high school, it was turned into a prison
and torture chamber by Pol Pot. An estimated 17,000 people were tortured and
killed here. In many of the rooms, there are hundreds of photos of the
victims, taken before they were killed.
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This is the "knotted gun" monument in Phnom Penh - representing the end
of violence.
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