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Losing Our Way Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing. --------------------------------------------------------- Arundhati Roy (Indian author, advocate, activist)

CAMBODIA: Siem Reap; Phnom Penh; Battambang; Kratie.

Before the Khmer Rouge and before the decades of civil wars, Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital city, was known as the “Paris of the East.” Today, the capital bursts again with life as the Khmer work to rebuild their lives. This is a typical street scene in the city.

CAMBODIA | Saturday, 23 January 2010 | Views [1478]

Before the Khmer Rouge and before the decades of civil wars, Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital city, was known as the “Paris of the East.” Today, the capital bursts again with life as the Khmer work to rebuild their lives. This is a typical street scene in the city.

...and an amazing array of Buddha statues – here, at one of the ceremonial pavilions. We weren't allowed to photograph them, but the ultimate in gorgeous Buddha statues were housed in the Silver Pagoda – including an Emerald Buddha made of Baccarat crystal and a life-sized golden Buddha decorated with 9584 diamonds! These are some of the only Buddhist artifacts that survived the Khmer Rouge attempt to rid the nation of its religious heritage.

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Tuol Svay Prey High School was turned by the Khmer Rouge into what is now known as S21 – the most notorious of torture prisons. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979, I (Mi), was a toddler, safe on the other side of the world. I had no idea that what was being discovered were freshly killed victims, along with records of the most heinous acts human beings can do to another. 30 years later, I stop here to see, among the ropes and pliers and knives and chains, the prison's waterboarding mechanism. Waterboarding. We do this too, I whisper to myself.

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