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Edward C.

Bokor Hill Station: Cambodia's Abandoned Colonial Resort

Nine hundred workers died building a French luxury resort on a sacred Cambodian mountain. Abandoned three times, it now hosts a billion-dollar casino — and a darker secret behind the hotel.

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Cambodia

Killing fields, torture prisons, and a genocide that erased a quarter of the population. Cambodia's darkest chapter is barely fifty years old.

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Choeung Ek: The History and Memorial of Cambodia’s Killing Fields

Choeung Ek stands as the final site of erasure for 17,000 victims of the Khmer Rouge. From the 8,000 skulls in the Memorial Stupa to the soil that still reveals bone, explore the raw, documented history of Cambodia's most notorious Killing Field.

Edward C.

Tuol Sleng: The High School of S-21 and the Bureaucracy of Disappearance

Tragedies & Disasters

Tuol Sleng: The High School of S-21 and the Bureaucracy of Disappearance

Discover how a Phnom Penh high school became S-21, the Khmer Rouge’s most notorious torture center. A deep dive into the architecture and bureaucracy of genocide.

Edward C.

Bokor Hill Station: Cambodia's Abandoned Colonial Resort

Cambodia

Choeung Ek: The History and Memorial of Cambodia’s Killing Fields

Tuol Sleng: The High School of S-21 and the Bureaucracy of Disappearance

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