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Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Today was a sad morning. We went to the prisons and the killing fields from the Cambodian genocide.
First a bit of history. The Genocide was from 1975-1979 and killed about half of the 6 million Cambodian population at the time. A man by the name of Pol Pot was an intellegant man from cambodia who got a scholarship to study in Paris. He studied communism and became obsessed with it. He then returned to Cambodia and decided to start the country over from scratch ...