Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Phnom Phen/ Killing fields- 8th Mar

One crazy man and his ideology can kill almost half the population of a country.. His '10 commandments'
the size of the single cell..

the dunking tub..
the bed where victims are left to die..
the make-do prison left as it is..
Choek Ek center once a school converted to a prison and a genocide center.. it's really disturbing when I visited this place. reason is, the place is left at it's original condition unlike museum that is nicely done up.. hmm, I don't like the feeling and took very quick browse and left..
nice longan tree.. though the place is haunting la..
estimated to be around 17,000 killed at this particular site, out of the 2 million over killed btwn 1975 to 1979.
actually there's nothing much to see here.. the only structure is this tower use to store the skulls from this site.. one of the many sites of 'killing fields' in Cambodia..
Not golf bunkers but mass grave being exhume after the infamous Pol Pot era which ended in 1979..

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