Kampuchea
I had the honor to do GIFT (Global Institute for Tomorrow - A Clinton Global Initiative) 2009 Training in Cambodia.
Cambodia has had a pretty bad run of luck for the last half-millennium or so. Ever since the fall of Angkor in 1431, the once mighty Khmer Empire has been plundered by all its neighbours. It was colonized by the French in the 19th century, and during the 1970s suffered heavy carpet bombing by the USA. After a false dawn of independence in 1953, Cambodia promptly plunged back into the horrors of civil war in 1970 to suffer the Khmer Rouge's incredibly brutal reign of terror.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Cambodia
Over 1 million people (and possibly many more) died from execution – including my GIFT classmates father and elder brother & uncles. Cambodia is also notorious for hidden child brothels http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/09/world/asia/cambodia-cfr-mira-sorvino-karaoke-brothels/)
Read MoreCambodia has had a pretty bad run of luck for the last half-millennium or so. Ever since the fall of Angkor in 1431, the once mighty Khmer Empire has been plundered by all its neighbours. It was colonized by the French in the 19th century, and during the 1970s suffered heavy carpet bombing by the USA. After a false dawn of independence in 1953, Cambodia promptly plunged back into the horrors of civil war in 1970 to suffer the Khmer Rouge's incredibly brutal reign of terror.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Cambodia
Over 1 million people (and possibly many more) died from execution – including my GIFT classmates father and elder brother & uncles. Cambodia is also notorious for hidden child brothels http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/09/world/asia/cambodia-cfr-mira-sorvino-karaoke-brothels/)
