December 6, 2010 Jean and I arrived in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, a few days ago. For the most part, the tourist sites of the city focus on two eras of Khmer history - the prosperity of the the Angkor kingdom from the 8th - 12th century and murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 – 79. In the spring of 1975, after expelling the denizens of Phnom Penh, Pol Pot and the leaders of the Khmer Rouge moved into the capital to set up the new government. In late 1975 they converted a former school, Tuol Sleng, in the south section of Phnom Penh into Security Office 21 (S-21). Under the command of a former mathematics teacher, Kaing Kek Ieu (Duch), S-21 would become an infamous detention, torture and execution center. This morning, Jean and I made the 15 minute walk from our hotel to the site of the prison. On August 19, 1979, soon after Vietnamese troops liberated Phnom Penh, S-21 was opened to the public as the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. Thus the site remains very much ...