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		<title>The Heart of a Place</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[cambodia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heart of any place is the people who inhabit it. For years, the Cambodian people where victims of Richard Nixon&#8217;s secret bombing campaign, only later to be subjected to Pol Pot&#8217;s brutal genocide while much of the word looked the other way. Yet today, few places, few people are more welcoming to international travelers. [...]]]></description>
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<p>The heart of any place is the people who inhabit it.</p>
<p>For years, the Cambodian people where victims of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccm-QlOxvPg">Richard Nixon&#8217;s secret bombing campaign</a>, only later to be subjected to <a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm">Pol Pot&#8217;s</a> <a href="http://www.yale.edu/cgp/">brutal genocide</a> while much of the word looked the other way.<span id="more-318"></span></p>
<p>Yet today, few places, few people are more welcoming to international travelers.  For a lesson in resilience and forgiveness, few places can match Cambodia.  Few places are more <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/cambodia">rewarding to visit</a>.</p>
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