Before heading to Vietnam we took a short stop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. A charmless town, but still a lot better than Vientiane, which I still maintain is the most boring capital EVER.
One of the important things to see here is the Toul Sleng genocide museum. This was the most notorious prision during the Khmer Rouge reign during the late 1970's. Under Pol Pot's rull more than 20% of the population of Cambodia were murdered. Pretty horrific stuff and the museum is worth seeing even if it is a little hard to take.
Of 20,000 people who went through the place only 7 survived. One was a painter who painted a lot of the scenes from the prison since.
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