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| Human skulls representing some of the 1.8 million victims tortured and murdered in prisons and the notorious “killing fields” in Cambodia during the communist Khmer Rouge regime are exhibited at the former S-21 or Tuol Sleng Prison in Phnom Penh, the nation's capital. |
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| Columnist David C. Henley is shown at the former Khmer Rouge prison and torture center in suburban Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital city. (Photos Courtesy of David C. Henley) |
By David C. Henley
Nevada Appeal
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — From a distance, the former Chao Ponhea Yat High School provided no outward evidence of the horrors that awaited me once inside when I arrived aboard a “tuk-tuk” taxicab, a small, two-wheeled canopied trailer pulled by a motorcycle.
Set on a narrow side street in this chaotic and poverty-stricken capital city of Cambodia, the complex of five three-story concrete buildings surrounded by a playground, palm trees, small shops and food stalls appeared commonplace and ordinary as my driver, 35-year-old Kosal, let me off at the front gate.
But first impressions can be deceiving.
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Set on a narrow side street in this chaotic and poverty-stricken capital city of Cambodia, the complex of five three-story concrete buildings surrounded by a playground, palm trees, small shops and food stalls appeared commonplace and ordinary as my driver, 35-year-old Kosal, let me off at the front gate.
But first impressions can be deceiving.
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