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- by Roberto Rocha
- published from Cambodia
- on 2010.08.21
The strange statues of Koh Kong (PHOTOS)
In the town of Koh Kong, near the border with Thailand, there’s a Buddhist spiritual retreat with a bizarre collection of sculptures by its riverfront.
In the photos below you’ll see sadistic-looking sculptures dressed in KR uniform killing people with the heads of animals. You’ll see a man being sawed in half while being pecked by a garuda, a bird of Buddhist mythology.
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- by Roberto Rocha
- published from Cambodia
- on 2010.08.19
The extreme duality of Phnom Penh
If you want a real mind screw, visit Phnom Penh’s killing field and its glitziest night club on the same day.
On one you will see what a genocidal nightmare Cambodia once was. You will be greeted with a tower containing hundreds of skulls arranged by gender and age. You will walk past mass graves and step on bone fragments that emerge from the ground with each passing rain.