Flashback Cambodia (2 of 2)

Village girls deriving fun from a game of rubber bands.
Tonle Sap Lake with the setting sun.
Congested road in Phnom Penh. On our way to catch the Apsara dance.
Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide. This is Pol Pot's secret prison (codename S-21) during his genocidal rule from 1975-1979. During this reign of terror, between 1 - 2 million Cambodians and foreigners were starved to death, tortured, or killed. This is the site of the former high school turned prison.
Silence. Photos of genocide victims on display in the many prison cells.
Upon arrival at the prison, the prisoners were photographed and required to give detailed autobiographies right up from their childhood to their arrest.
Fixture to keep the prisoners' head straight up before they were photographed.
Actual cell where the prisoners were being tortured.
Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf,dix. Counting their days spent in the prison.
While inside the prison, moments of poignancy will unravel itself and visitors alike will be thrown into a sense of disbelief. Walking on the outside will mar these thoughts at least for awhile before reality sets back in again.
View of Choeung Ek Genoicidal Centre, which was in essence the burial ground for those arrested and tortured atthe Tuol Sleng Prison.
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