Cambodia endured one of the worst genocides in Asia, in the 1970s and into the 80s. The Khmer Rogue, a communist group that took over the country in 1975, killed millions of people in a case of "autogenocide". The Khmer Rogue was led by a bunch of paranoid maniacs that destroyed their whole party and anyone associated with members that were considered traitors. Thousands of people died during their policies that forced everyone out of the cities and into rural workcamps. This is a school that was used by the regime as a torture centre. They were extremely systematic in recording the people they tortured and killed. The building is now a museum filled with pictures of people before they were interred. 
One of the rooms that was used as a private torture cell. When Vietnam liberated the country in 1979, torture victims were found in the rooms. A picture was taken of the scene and hung on the wall behind the bed.
Some Buddhists monks erected a stupa to put the "souls" of those murdered at ease. The skulls fill the inside of the glass stupa, on the outskirts of Phomn Phen.
Shot of the capital of Cambodia, Phomn Phen, from the back of a motorcycle.
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