Sunday, 05 September 2010




Filed at 11:19 a.m. ET PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Cambodia plans to renovate the skull-filled memorial on the site of the Khmer Rouge's former ''killing fields'' for the first time since it was built two decades ago. Now a grim tourist attraction, Choeung Ek outside the capital Phnom Penh was where most of the prisoners who were tortured at the regime's main prison, S-21, were taken to be killed. The remains of some 8,900 human skulls and bones are displayed in glass cases inside a Buddhist...
Full Story: The New York Times



 

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