Archive for February 2015
Magic Music
(Maya) Arn Chorn-Pond is the man who started Cambodian Living Arts. He was 11 at the time when the Khmer Rouge started. Luckily he survived through this terrible time because of his cleverness and was able to talk to us right now. Arn became famous; he played the khin (musical instrument) and the Khmer Rouge…
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(Navyn) Tuol Sleng or S-21, is a former schoolhouse, which became the interrogation epicenter for the Khmer Rouge. It remains encircled in barbed wire just as it had been in 1978. In the classrooms, thousands of black and white photographs document the prisoners who were detained here. Each innocent face stares into the camera lens…
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