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Mia Farrow to visit Tuol Sleng

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10 January 2008 | 19:00 ICT

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Construction of the South Korean-backed Gold Tower 42 project, on Monivong Boulevard, stalled in 2010.

American actress and humanitarian celeb Mia Farrow will visit Cambodia next week

as part of her Olympic style torch relay tour of genocide countries. The actress

is leading a January 19-20 delegation "to raise awareness about genocide around

the world and in Darfur in particular," says Theary Seng, executive director

of the Center for Social Development.

Farrow has been leading a global movement known as the Olympic Dream for Darfur to

press China, a major purchaser of Sudan's oil, to exert its economic influence on

Sudan to end violence in Darfur. As part of her torch relay through countries that

have suffered, the actress will visit the notorious torture prison Tuol Sleng and

host with CSD a symbolic torch lighting and relay ceremony, Seng said. Tuol Sleng

survivor and artist Van Nath will light the torch.

The actress will be hosted by U.S. Ambassador Joseph Mussomeli at an event with officials

of government, the Khmer Rouge tribunal, KR survivors, and civil society working

on reconciliation. Seng said they're working on setting up visits to the King and

prime minister.

The 62-year-old actress' new movie Be Kind Rewind is supposed to open in February.

She plays a "dotty old lady," according to reviewers.

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