Pol Pot managed to exterminate over half the population of his own country in three and a half years - that's nearly 3.8m people. As a result, 50% of the population in Cambodia is under the age of 17. There are 129 mass graves at the Killing Fields. They have only exhumed 87 and they found 8935 corpses. The torture centre at Toul Sleng (which was a school before the Khmer Rouge took it over) is heart breaking. They took a picture of every man, woman and child (yes, they are hundreds of photos of kids too) that they tortured and killed and out of nearly 20,000 people that passed through it, only 7 survived. What I saw will haunt my memories for the rest of my days.Friday, 22 May 2009
The downright evil.......beyond comprehension
Pol Pot managed to exterminate over half the population of his own country in three and a half years - that's nearly 3.8m people. As a result, 50% of the population in Cambodia is under the age of 17. There are 129 mass graves at the Killing Fields. They have only exhumed 87 and they found 8935 corpses. The torture centre at Toul Sleng (which was a school before the Khmer Rouge took it over) is heart breaking. They took a picture of every man, woman and child (yes, they are hundreds of photos of kids too) that they tortured and killed and out of nearly 20,000 people that passed through it, only 7 survived. What I saw will haunt my memories for the rest of my days.
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