Phnom Penh

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The Royal Palace	Throne Hall	Naga banister	Inside the Throne Hall
A 59m high tower on the Throne Hall	Building with an elephant dock	The elephant dock	Chan Chaya Pavilion
Iron house, a gift from Napoleon III	Banquet Hall	Colourful frieze	Detailed painting
The Silver Pagoda	Inside gold Buddhas & silver floor tiles	Gold & diamond decorated Buddha	Silver Pagoda
Shrine of King Norodom Suramarit	Shrine of King Ang Duong	Shrine of King Norodom	Elaborate shrines
Detailed carvings	Detailed carvings	Mural & colourful objects	Statues around the gardens
Coat of Arms ?	Gold & red detail	Tuol Sleng Museum	Double fence & barbed wire still there
Former high school became a prison known as S-21	People were detained & tortured here	14 graves of the last people tortured (1979)	Small cells were made in the forner classrooms
1975-1978 more than 17,000 sent from here to the extermination camp at Choeung Ek	Those that died during torture were buried in mass graves in the prison grounds	Walls knocked through	Shackles for multiple prisoners
Torture rooms where the...	...last prisoners died	Their decomposing bodies found...	..by the Vietnamese army
20,000 were documented as "passing through" S-21	Men	Women	Even children
Torture instruments	Many died	Clothes of the prisoners	Map of Cambodia
Killing Fields of Choeung Ek	Memorial Stupa	With the skulls of more than 8000 people inside	Men, women & children
129 mass graves	86 graves had the bodies exhumed	43 graves have been left untouched	A mass grave
Human bones piled up	Clothes still lie around...	...and bones	A tree where children were beaten to death
The palm tree - Cambodia's national tree	Its serrated stems used to cut throats

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