Phnom Penh,
Under the blazing sun announcing the end of the rainy season, the marble and concrete monument stands alone in the middle of an almost deserted mineral esplanade.
Placed on a pedestal, its 54-meter-high peak points skyward like an obelisk.
At its foot, a square structure and bas-reliefs carved in concrete frame the building, reminiscent of the architecture and ornaments of the temples of Angkor, true Cambodian pride, located several hundred kilometers away.
But unlike the epic tales of the heyday of the Khmer Empire, these bas-reliefs tell a story of reconciliation and peace.
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We are at the foot of the Win-Win Monument, the
“win-win”
monument
named after Prime Minister Hun Sen for his own political heritage.
Inaugurated at the end of 2018 in the northern suburbs of Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, it symbolizes the peace process in which the kingdom embarked in the early 1990s. On the bas-reliefs, a fresco
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