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.

CAMBODIA | Saturday, 23 January 2010 | Views [3129]

Men, women, and children... each person with her own story, her own life. We looked at them in these, their mug shots. And for some, we looked at them in photos that recorded their torture, their killing.

The rooms of S21 are now lined with mug shots of the prisoners, nearly all of whom were killed before they saw freedom again. Less than a handful of survivors later help to color in the nightmare of how the prison functioned and the systematic killing of thousands.

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We drove 15 minutes outside of Phnom Penh to The Killing Fields of Choeung Ek – the death and grave site for most S21 victims. The skulls and bones and old clothes that we saw preserved in this beautiful stupa are only a percentage of those that filled Killing Fields from 1975-1979 and are scattered all across the country.

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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.

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