Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Killing Fields

We made it out! 


 But I still had LeAnn take a picture of me in front of the large building full of human skulls, just in case it was my last goodbye.

This place showed the results of a tyrannical ruler who wanted everyone in Cambodia to blindly follow him (1975).  He had almost 1/4 of the population executed.




It was a bit depressing.  I guess there is a building in the city where they executed mass amount of people as well and they have not cleaned anything up since the killings.  I guess they say that it is very shocking and graphic.  I have other pictures of the Killing Tree and other grave sites but I think I will stop posting them.  

I figured out why most of the people in Phnom Phen are young.  Wiki says that 1.7 to 2.5 million out of a population of around 8 million were killed.

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