Phnom Penh
Where the River Turns Back
Portrait
Four channels meet in front of the city where the Mekong crosses the Bassac and the Tonlé Sap, and that last river reverses its flow twice a year — running inland when the Mekong rises, draining out again when it falls. The Khmer Rouge emptied the whole city in three days in April 1975 and a school in the southern districts kept the photographic record of what followed.
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