Outside Phnom Penh ‘The Killing Fields’ can be found. This is an area where people were brought to be executed and buried in mass graves during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. In the center of the fields is a large white monument to the unknown people whose bodies were found in the graves. ThisContinue reading “The Killing fields”
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The Killing Fields – Inside the Monument
In the center of The Killing Fields stands a huge monument to the thousands of people that were killed there and buried in the mass graves. What’s inside may shock you. The thousands of remains of those unnamed victims who were killed during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Layer and layer of skulls reachedContinue reading “The Killing Fields – Inside the Monument”
Phnom Penh
I knew very little about Cambodia when I travelled there in 2011 and knew even less when it came to the atrocities that happened there in the 1970s. When deciding to travel through Cambodia I didn’t realise what I would learn and see there. Looking at my trip it was one of the most educationalContinue reading “Phnom Penh”
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
See the full post for Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum HERE.
Khmer Rouge
This weekend marked 40 years since the Khmer Rouge rolled into Phnom Penh. During the 44 months of Pol Pot’s rule over Cambodia a quarter of the population would die during his attempt at building a perfect society. For most Europeans, especially if you didn’t live during this period, I think knowledge on these atrocitiesContinue reading “Khmer Rouge”
Our Shadows Will Remain 