While visiting Bakong, one of the ruined temples near Angkor Wat, we came across this group of musicians. They were playing traditional instruments, including a two-stringed violin and a large stringed instrument called a khim.
We learned that all the musicians were victims of land mine explosions, losing limbs or their eye- sight. Cambodia suffered a dark history during and immediately after the despised Pol Pot regime (1975-1979), when his Khmer Rouge troops planted many thousand land mines. Even today the countryside has not been entirely cleared of them
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