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Tuol Sleng (S-21).A 'Must See'.

While you're in Phnom Penh I would recommend visiting Tuol Sleng (museum),also known as S-21.It was only 30 years ago this year that the Vietnamese army liberated PhnomPenh from the 
bloody,paranoic regime of Pol Pot .During Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime (1975-79) this former high 
school was used as a center of torture and execution,adding to the mass genocide happening around 
Cambodia at this time. You'll find the experience quite grim and saddening but,as I did,enlightening and 
aware of a new empathy towards the Cambodian people,many of who lived through those times and lost many
friends and relatives.
Some travellers I met told me they found it too depressing so left half way through! I think 
that,considering the ammount of suffering that thousands of innocent people went through 
here,spending an hour or so out of your life to pay respect and remember them is not much to ask.Go to 
the Riverside area afterwards at sunset and have a few cold Angkor beers!
I took a series of black and white images while I was there.If you're interested in seeing them please visit 
the following link:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/neilbussey/sets/72157619113454721/