Khmer Rouge

Today another incredible day on my trip, but a bit different as the rest of my experiences.

I learned a lot of the history of Cambodja and I was really shocked and amazed that I hadn't heard of it before.



So many people have been tortured and murded by the Khmer Rouge. Today we went to the killing fields, the shooting range and the S-12 prisone/museum. Before we went ther we saw a documetry and movie about it. It was good to see it before we went ther than you know a bit more about it and have a good view before we went there.



It was impresive but tuff to see. Esspecialy the cells and how they had tortured the prisoners to died. People were in prison by no reason and force them to make an assignment that made them look guilty and force them to tel names of others to get in prison. The cels were small, the were hooked to iron bars on there feet so they couldn't move. They got almost no food or drink, when they spoke or moved they were bitten. If you saw the pictures of those people it was horrible; they were bonded and blindfolded, they couldn't do anything and were bitten till died. So much blood and bruises, so tin and exhausted, scared looking.



Sometimes they needed blood and they took the prisoner to a hall were they were bonded on a beth with there arms spread and bond together; they took so much blood that only there breath and eye's were moving/ rolling in there heads; than they were burried behind the prison.

They hang people on trees, hold them long on there heads, put them with there heads in buckeds till they couldn't breath, took there fingernails out, beat them with iron bars/sticks, the little children hit agains trees, woman raped and burried naked; horrible and unhuman things like that; to sick to think of



So we saw the prisons, skeletons of hundreds of people, the tool they were tortured with, the boxes were they had to pi in, the iron beths or floor they had to sleep on, the holles they had to dig for their own graves, all of it



It was terrible, but good to see and to know more about there history and terrible past.

Still a few people alive and told there story show their picture

really impresive



So a hard day in Cambodja and glad not have to live in that time here



Tomorrow we will leave to Ankor Wat to see the beautiful temples over there.