Cambodia Killing fields

[orisolo]

Hi Guys,
Just run into this pics and thought to share.
Cambodia about 2-3 years ago when i visited Pnom Phen
This is a memorial build on one of many Killing fields.
Its Amazing what atrocities men kind can bring on his own blood.

The diferent levels (shelfs) in the Memorial house are sorted between male, female and young's..

If you inspect the picture you can see that most of the victims here died violent death

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields
The Killing Fields (Khmer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_language): វាលពិឃាត viel pi-kʰiet) are a number of sites in Cambodia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia) where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge) regime, during its rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge_rule_of_Cambodia) of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_Civil_War) (1970–1975).
Analysis of 20,000 mass grave sites by the DC-Cam Mapping Program and Yale University (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University) indicate at least 1,386,734 victims of execution.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields#cite_note-1)[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields#cite_note-2) Estimates of the total number of deaths resulting from Khmer Rouge policies, including disease and starvation, range from 1.7 to 2.5 million out of a 1975 population of roughly 8 million. In 1979, communist Vietnam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam) invaded Democratic Kampuchea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Kampuchea) and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime.

[10x]

Been there. Walked through the mass graves with bones (even small bones from children) still sticking out of the dirt.
This horrific event happened in the late 1970s and the world did not know what was happening.

Many of those skulls shown had a hole in the top because they used a nail to kill these poor souls.

The Vietnamese Army invaded, the folks doing the killing faded into the rural areas and are still in Cambodia. These miscreants took photos and kept some records of their victims.
The horrors these folks went through prior to death because of torture are unimaginable.

Walking through the piles of skulls on shelves and in cabinets, was a grim reminder that the humans can and have done some horrible things. It was probably the most grim and unpleasant experience of my life.

One of the interesting parts was to watch the tourists as they realized the enormitiy of the human toll and the horror of folks simply herded into busses and trucks, tortured, and slaughtered. Tourists left there crying

The really interesting part is that the perpetrators were never caught and punished.

The Vietnamese army put a stop to this slaughter of humans (the professionals,the business folks, the teachers, the eductated) and restored government in Cambodia, then left.

Just a note, there is a strong dislike of China by by the Vietnamese and Cambodians.

The S21 museum.
(I could not take photos as I felt it was an intrusion and disrespectful)
But I will post a link

http://www.killingfieldsmuseum.com/s21-victims.html

[William Yanda]

Not the first time. Wasn't there an earlier Mongol invader who left piles of skulls where he had conquered?

edited to add-I know that was Eurasia not SE Asia.

[bhn22]

That would have been Tamerlane, the "Sword of Islam".

[ole 5 hole group]

The world could have/should have known what was going on - it just wasn't widely reported for reasons known to several but in the end, no one really cared. They did an hour long documentary on the Pol Pot killing fields and interviewed several of the people who did the killings - one man advised he killed some of his relatives and he was assign to cut throats and advised he did so all day long for weeks on end and his arms, hands and fingers ached from slaughtering people all day long - the water in the paddies were red, and there was a lot of water in those paddies.

That part of the world really isn't understood by many in the west and probably never will be - just look at the child prostitution over there with 4 to 6 year old girls and boys - hard to comprehend for most folks but it's a way of life - always has been and probably always will be.

[Idaho Shooter]

The most amazing part of the Khmer Rouge story to me was the reported ages of many perpetrators. It was reported at the time, that many of the Khmer Rouge gangs consisted of youths as young as 12 years perpetrating rape and torture upon countless victims.

I always took such stories as proof that man is inherently evil, absent proper training through a civilized society or a proper church.

[shooter93]

The wanton slaughter of fellow human beings is as old as mankind. There is and will always be someone who wants what others have be it money, land, food, power or all of that. It varies in scale and is often ignored by people who could stop it but it will always exist.

[xbeeman412]

To a lesser degree Mexico drug lords are doing the same things today.