Phnom Penh, Cambodia

While in Phnom Penh, we were taken to an orphanage/school in the city. This was for kids who had lost their parents, mainly through AIDS or TB. We brought them a couple of 50Kg bags of rice but what they really need is money - they'er trying to collect enough to build toilets. If anyone's interested in sending them money, I've got the details of how you can contribute.




This is S-21. It was a school that was turned into a prison during the Pol Pot/Khymer Rouge regime. Some of the torture that went on there was horrific. The place is now a museum.Alot of prisoners that were in S-21 were taken to "The Killing Fields" to be shot and buried in mass graves. this building has got human skulls piled almost to the ceiling, as a grim reminder of what went on here. A tree in the middle of the grounds was used by the soliders (mostly teenagers) to kill babies and infants. Instead of "wasting" bullets, tehy'd swing the babies by the legs and smash their heads of the tree.......