I spent a day going to S-21, the high school-turned-prison/torture chambers during the Khmer Rouge, and the Killing Fields. I felt sick to my stomach all day and became teary-eyed more than a few times. Over 2 million people were killed during this regime from 1975-1979. The atrocities that some humans are willing and able to commit are incomprehensible. And it still exists today (most notably in Sudan - if you want to get involved with a reputable group that is working there 
savedarfur.org is a good one). I just don't understand how the world community continues to let genocide occur again and again... I'll get off my soap box before I really get on it, but see below.

 some photos of the victims held at S-21 before they were executed

 barbed wire covering the outdoor hallways at S-21

 one of the small holding cells

 skulls found in the Killing Fields (i spared you the close up shot I took where you can see the bullet holes and marks from the 
bludgeons; many people didn't get the mercy of a precious bullet -too expensive)
 self explanatory

 a mass grave

 all these depressions are mass graves
 
1 comment:
thanks to u r blog, i got an opportunity to see some fotos of genocide, which is really a deplorable act of violence.
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