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Famous for the movie that took their name, the 'killing fields' are perhaps the first thing that one associates with the Khmer Rouge. The Choeung Ek fields just outside Phnom Pehn now look (one supposes) much as they did before they became a place of execution: green and innocuous. Only an inspection of a few terse monuments reveals that an estimated 17,000 people were executed here. This recording captures the odd resonance inside one grim but effective summation of horror: a glass tower filled with carefully categorized skulls: 'female, 15-25; male, 15-25; female...'. We found it a bit surreal that every visitor to the fields is heavily touted to go as well to the nearby shooting ranges, where assault rifles (and more) may be rented by the round. The rumor mill insisted that for a price, the adventure traveler could try a bazooka on an unlucky cow.
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