Cambodia - Killing fields

The post I don't want to write or consider. Unfortunately some parts of mankinds time on earth should never be forgotten.

 We visited Choeung Ek, a killing field near Phnom Penh and Tuol Sleng Genocide museum.

I have seen rows of skulls and bones before in ancient catacombs. This was different. It did effect me and dont like thinging about it.. How could such evil exist?

 Between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge directly executed over one million people in 20,000 mass graves (killing fields). More than a million more died from disease and starvation.

 The Khmer Rouge vision was for all Cambodians to work on collective farms. To accomplish this they drove everyone from the cities and towns under penalty of death. They closed all schools, hospitals and factories. Money was abolished and the right to personal property.

 
All professional people including doctors, teachers,  and engineers was murdered along with their family. Anyone knowing a second language or wearing glasses was deemed intellectual and killed. Religion was banned and monks killed. Music was deemed illegal and all borders closed

This little boy guided us around one of the sites at a killing cave at Phnom Sampov

We walked along paths between the mass Graves. In many places bones and rags were showing thought our path. The executions were carried out at night to the sound of revolutionary music and diesel generators that powered the floodlights.

Most were murdered with simple farm implements. This tree was used for babies.

We took no pictures at Tuoi Sleng Genocide museum which was a school before the Khmer Rouge converted it into an execution Prison S21.  Here prisoners were tortured until they confessed to ludicrous ideas.  Of the 14,000 people who were imprisoned only 7 survived.

Before prisoners were tortured and executed  photos were taken. The museums now shows rows and rows of these photos. It is painful to look at the faces of  these innocent men and women.

Beautiful flowers growing in the saddest location.










http://www.kerryhamilltrust.com/

http://www.killingfieldsmuseum.com/s21-victims.html