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An illustration of some of the many torture methods. Along side these was an image of a women, and for them they would lie them naked, and using hot mental tongs they would burn/ pull there nipples off and then let scorpions run freely over her body.. Again if they complained, squirmed, made any noise, afterwards, they were hung.

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This photos displays the capacity of people within the confines of the buildings. Mothers, fathers, men and women of all ages, children and babies. They weren’t even give so much to carve a message on the wall, and many died from starvation.

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Here is where victims were hung, by their feet, until they lost consciousness…. From here they would drop them head first into the pots, filled with water so as to drown them.

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Within these cells humans where strapped to these metal bed frames with iron chains (pictured second) around there feet, given a box to go to the toilet in and tortured until they spilt what they knew or connections they had to help out Pol Pot and his men. Abiding at all times to the rules listed on the sign below, and if they complained, he would hang them

Khmer Rouge

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As a part of our city tour we were taken to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. Within the grounds of an old high school, we were lead around by a Cambodian man who was 15 during the time of the Khmer Rouge who explained to us the torture methods of those within the communist party of Kampuchea lead by Pol Pot. Between 1975-1979 Pol Pot and his army tortured and killed 2,000,000 of the current 7 million population. Walking around was ghostly eerie, painfully heart-breaking and their methods was inhumanly horrific.

Tonele Sap river meets the Mekong

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A man bathing in Tonele Sap river. At this point the two rivers converge (along the Mekong you can catch a boat to Vietnam, which is what I plan to do in a few weeks time) and the Mekong begins. At sunrise you can see hundreds of clusters of locals doing Thai chi along the river front, and join in on the apparently Zumba-like morning exercise.