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Asia - Cambodia - Phnom Penh - LZ - Cambodia - part II

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	The Royal Palace of Phnom Penh Close up of stupa.
	The National Musuem The National Museum contained several thousand ancient artifacts from the Khmer empire (9th-15th century).
	The National Museum An elephant ready to charge. Looked pretty real, though.
	Yama, Lord of the Dead The only object in the museum which may be photographed was this statue of Yama in the courtyard.
	Beneath Yama "If you want a good rebirth you must liberate from the delusions."
	Ganesa Statue of an elephant man outside the museum.
	Wat Phnom A 15th century stupa and a working clock beneath it.
	Choueng Ek, The Killing Fields A monument erected in memory of the people who were executed by the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot. During his rule, it is estimated that 2 million Cambodians died by starvation, torture or execution. 2 million Cambodians represented approximately 30% of the Cambodian population during that time.
	Filled with Skulls The entire monument was filled with skulls.
	Filled with Skulls The entire monument was filled with skulls.
	School girls The Killing Fields are situated right next to a school that is fenced off with barbed wire.
	School girls They wanted a dollar after I took their picture. I gave them some food instead. Thankfully, they had no idea what had happened here years ago.
	Bones everywhere This is the half buried skull that one of the kids was playing with.
	The Killing Tree Prisoners were ordered to kneel in front of this tree, and then murdered. The scars on the tree bark are from where an axe passed through the skull.
	Mass Graves Overgrown now, but these depressions in the ground are where thousands of men, women and children were buried.
	Playing next to death On the other side of the kids in the water are several thousand corpses in mass graves, still un-exhumed.
	More kids These guys wanted money for their pictures, too. It didn't matter that they were standing on someones grave.
	Best Part of the Day We had the opportunity to shoot any gun we wanted. From handguns to grenades to RPG's. We chose the baddest of them all, an anti-aircraft gun that required sandbags to hold the tripod in place from it's power. YES!
	Best Part of the Day Blaine shooting off a few rounds of the anti-aircraft gun. He truly looked like Rambo
	S-21 - Toul Sleng Genocide Museum This is Security Prison 21, a former high school in Phnom Penh. 20,000 prisoners, mainly educated Cambodians, or former ministers of government and their families, were brought here to be "interrogated."