Americans for UNFPA
Leadership Trip to
Cambodia
January 2006
Tuol Sleng Prison and the killing fields outside Phnom Penh
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The depressions in the ground are the sites of mass graves that have been excavated.
The tree in the background has a dark stain on its trunk about eight feet from the ground. This is a bloodstain from the period in the 1970s when the Khymer Rouge killed small children by swinging them in the air and smashing their heads against the tree. The bloodstains were about five feet from the ground at that time. The tree has grown since then, but the children haven't.