This place never caeses to amaze me. In 1975 Tuol Svay Prey High School was taken over by Pol Pots security forces and turned into a prison known as security prison 21 (S-21). It soon became the largest centre of detention and torture in t'he country. Almost all of the people held at S-21 were later taken to the extermination camp at Choeung Ek and were executed. Detainees who died during torture were buried in mass graves inside the prison grounds. During the first part of 1977, S-21 claimed a terrifying average of 100 victims per day. Given that a visit here is instrumental in understanding how far Cambodia has stepped back from the abyss since those dark, dark days - we dutifully paid a visit. Images of the faces of the people executed there, the items of torture and the blood stains on the walls will stay with me for the rest of my life. I did not sleep well last night. As such I decided not to go to the Killing Fields with the boys today, where the remains of 8985 people, many whom were found bound and blindfolded, were exhumed from mass graves in 1980. Fragments of human bone and bits of cloth are acattered around the disinterred pits. There is a very different feel to Phnom Penh in comparison to Siem Reap and so i think we may well be leaving either tonight or tomorrow morning. We will head to Sihanoukville which we have just heard has been bought by the Japanese and is set to be flatened in 2-4 weeks time. So it looks like we are going to be one of the last to see it as it is! I am having a tough time handling the mental strength needed for this place. With 50% of the country under 15 it is all too common to see kids begging on the streets and turning to solvent abuse in order to supress thier unrelenting hunger. Land mine victims also beg on the streets and it is difficult to turn a blind eye. These people have been through so much. With the Khmer Rouge being so recent many people you meet have been directly affected and yet they are far friendlier than the Thais. The kids here are so bright too - many speak several languages!! I have no doubt I will remember this place for the rest of my life.