The stark remains of a building in Kampong Speu, the regional capital of the Cambodian province ...

The stark remains of a building in Kampong Speu, the regional capital of the Cambodian province of Kampong Speu, located on the main road from Phnom Penh to the south west port of Sihanoukville. Two drawings of vehicles have been scratched in charcoal into one of the remaining walls, one of which bears a UN logo, which has been written right to left in the Khmer style. These ruins stand in testimony to America's clandestine B-52 bombing campaign of the late 1960s and early 1970s against Cambodia, which targeted the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong bases in eastern Cambodia and their supply lines running east from Kompong Som to South Vietnam. The US bombing campaign shattered Cambodia's social, economic and farming infrastructure and killed an estimated 150,000 civilians. The Americans dropped over half a million tonnes of bombs and indiscriminately seeded anti-personnel mines which are still claiming victims throughout Cambodia's southern provinces.