A heavy concrete column in Wat Botum Park topped with a stylised group of Vietnamese and Cambodian soldiers and civilians. It was erected in 1979 to commemorate the Vietnamese invasion that toppled the Khmer Rouge regime — an event Cambodians view through wildly conflicting lenses, depending on politics and family history.
The monument has been bombed and burned more than once by nationalist groups, then repaired by the government. It is worth a brief stop on a circuit of the riverside parks, less for the sculpture itself than for what its scarred presence says about Cambodian–Vietnamese relations.