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Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Cambodia is still recovering from its many wounds. Phnom Penh is a lively capital but problems abound: poverty, street kids, AIDS and crippled amputees to name a few. In the 70's, the country imploded under the genocidal strangle of the perverse Khmer Rouge and its psychopathic leader, Pol Pot. The KR instituted a bizarre reign of terror to establish an agrarian utopia: troops emptied the cities, sending people to farm land under the spiteful watch of rural peasants and child soldiers. Millions died of starvation, famine, ill-treatment and torture; mass executions occurred daily in the 'killing fields' - including young children and old grandparents. All educated, professional or middle class citizens, were branded traitors and hideously tortured in prison, where they falsely implicated neighbors, family and friends. The paranoid depravity of Pol Pot included frequent internal purges and the killing of his own followers.
Cambodia is still recovering from its many wounds. Phnom Penh is a lively capital but problems abound: poverty, street kids, AIDS and crippled amputees to name a few. In the 70's, the country imploded under the genocidal strangle of the perverse Khmer Rouge and its psychopathic leader, Pol Pot. The KR instituted a bizarre reign of terror to establish an agrarian utopia: troops emptied the cities, sending people to farm land under the spiteful watch of rural peasants and child soldiers. Millions died of starvation, famine, ill-treatment and torture; mass executions occurred daily in the 'killing fields' - including young children and old grandparents. All educated, professional or middle class citizens, were branded traitors and hideously tortured in prison, where they falsely implicated neighbors, family and friends. The paranoid depravity of Pol Pot included frequent internal purges and the killing of his own followers.
