The Killing Fields and S21 Prison

This is hard to write about. I dont want to say too much cause I believe maybe its something people should see for themselves. It was stressful, heatbreaking and pretty overwhelming...So much was kept from us, so much was taken from these people. The ways in which people suffered and died is almost too much to bear. We are talking mass genocide only 40 years ago, this is our generation. Can you imagine after suffering from bombs dropped by the USA and while trying to recover some lunatic decides that people must be peasents and work for nothing, become communists, join the army, lose their family, their homes, their freedom...Pol Pot hid behind people who were under his complete control. He promised young uneducated farmers the world and turned them into killing machines. His own family was not safe. Such extremism for me is incomprehendible and unforgivable. Any educated person, doctors, teachers, professers were forced to confess to crimes or to confess to a fabricated story...families were prisoned together and killed together. If you didnt confess you were kept alive and tortured. When you confessed for something you didnt do you were sent to the killing fields. Closer to the end of all this horror Pol Pots paranoia was so intense that the one or two trucks a week that took people to the killing fields became several per day....millions of people died. Steve and I had an emotional day, it was difficult but it was a day I will never forget, like Cambodias beautiful people it is something that will take a long time to heal from.