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Phnom Penh: situated on the confluence of Tonley
sap, Mekong, and Bassac river.
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City population:
1.2 million (estimate 2004)
- Popular tour sites: Royal palace, National
Museum, Wat Phnom, Sisowat Street (called River-Front
street, best time in the evening)
- Toul Sleng Museum and
Cheung Ek Memorial:
These places are memorial sites that reveal a grim and
grisly evidence of mass tortures and executions committed
by the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) whose main mission
was to cleanse the society of middle-class
and people belonging to pervious regime, Khmer Republic
backed by the Americans (1970-1975).
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