PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Vietnamese army cameramen recalled on Monday the horrific scenes as they passed through the barbed wire gates of Pol Pot's S-21 torture centre in Cambodia's capital 30 years ago.
"We had to use masks and perfume to bear the stench as we walked into the centre," said Dinh Phong, a member of an army film crew covering Hanoi's toppling of the Khmer Rouge regime that was blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people.
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