My husband used to let me go for picnics on the riverside. She had no inkling of the disaster about to engulf her. I have had a very sad life since 1975. If somebody dies, I don't cry anymore. I have cried enough.
Many visitors believe that the pagoda is a font of wealth and good fortune.
There are two schools for 1,000 children on the grounds. Kok, who was a prosperous fish merchant in Lon Nol times, knows all about the pagoda's dark past. The grounds were used as a detention center. In the middle, a shrine with glass windows brims with skulls and bones from the 18,000 people Kok and others believe were executed and dumped in the killing ground at the back. Less than a kilometer away, Kok survived.