November 2, 2010
ABC Radio Australia
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has left Cambodia for Malaysia after a two day visit that took her from the temples of Angkor Wat to a shelter for trafficked women.
Mrs Clinton also travelled to Phnom Penh where she met with senior government officials and visited the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.
Speakers: Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State; Hor Namhong, Cambodian Foreign Minister
CARMICHAEL: This was Hillary Clinton's first visit to Cambodia, and came as part of her two-week trip to a series of Asia-Pacific nations in a bid to boost US relations with this part of the world.
Secretary Clinton spent Sunday in the tourist town of Siem Reap, where she visited the temples of Angkor Wat and also went to a US-funded project to help victims of trafficking.
Early Monday she landed in Phnom Penh and visited the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, an experience that she said was very emotional.
HILLARY CLINTON: And I looked at the faces of the young Cambodians - both those who were killed at that terrible place of suffering, and those who did the killing. And what is most important is that Cambodians themselves are educating the young generation about a painful chapter in this country's past and honouring the memory of those who died by working hard to bring accountability and justice while seeking to stabilize and reconcile as well.
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Secretary Clinton spent Sunday in the tourist town of Siem Reap, where she visited the temples of Angkor Wat and also went to a US-funded project to help victims of trafficking.
Early Monday she landed in Phnom Penh and visited the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, an experience that she said was very emotional.
HILLARY CLINTON: And I looked at the faces of the young Cambodians - both those who were killed at that terrible place of suffering, and those who did the killing. And what is most important is that Cambodians themselves are educating the young generation about a painful chapter in this country's past and honouring the memory of those who died by working hard to bring accountability and justice while seeking to stabilize and reconcile as well.
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