Cambodia Marks Independence Day

Thousands of Cambodians gathered near Independence Monument in Phnom Penh Monday, celebrating the 62nd anniversary of the nation’s independence from colonial rule. Cambodia left 90 years of French colonialism on this day in 1953, ushering in a brief period of art and culture, before the country fell into civil war and eventually to the Khmer Rouge. VOA Khmer Neou Vannarin reports from Phnom Penh.