Monday, October 06, 2008

Day 3 - The Killing Fields at Choeung Ek, Phnom Penh


Do check out what is written on the board You don't want to step on it, it is the mass grave for many innocent people
The 'Magic Tree'? Do look at the sign board please...
The stupa that stack up all the skulls, from kids to adults...


'The most tragic'

On this day, I came to know of the name, "Pol Pot Regime". Will go and get the 1984 "The Killing Fields" movie DVD and watch it. During the time of Khmer Rouge, all people who perceived as educated individuals, officials, anyone who has contact with foreigners, the monks, professors, teachers, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, will be brought here and torture (for instance, have you skin peeled while you are still alive) and later on kill by the demonic soldiers who are trained to kill even their own parents, friends and relatives. Gee... I thought this only happens in Africa... Oh ya.. if you wear glasses at that time, you will be send to this living hell as well, cuz they thought you are literate! About one million people died during that time...

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