Cambodia

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

By The Salem Explorers | February 27, 2015 |

(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…

Never Fall Down

By The Salem Explorers | February 19, 2015 |

(Halle) Arn Chorn-Pond was a survivor of the Cambodian genocide from 1975-1979. Patricia McCormick wrote a book called Never Fall Down about how Arn managed to stay alive during the long four years under the control of the Khmer Rouge. A total of two million people died, which is a quarter of the population. Arn…