A history of Killing

The trip to Phnom Penh was, for me, the history class that I never took in high school or college and, unfortunately, never taught at Global Visions. Two weeks in Cambodia has been as eye opening as almost 5 months in China. At first, China seemed normal and not too far off from America, but the longer I am there, the less subtle the differences become. But, Cambodia, has just been a constant reoccurance of jaw-dropping revelations.

The killings of the Khmer, the crazy number of lexus driving through a 3rd world country where most people don't have fresh water.

Here is some wikipedia info...something i couldn't get in china.

The Khmer regime is remembered mainly for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people, estimates range from 750,000 to 3 million, under its regime, through execution, starvation and forced labor. Although directly responsible for the death of a large amount of that number, the policies of the Khmer Rouge led many others to die from starvation and displacement. In terms of the number of people killed as a proportion of the population of the country it ruled, it was one of the most lethal regimes of the 20th century. One of their mottos, in reference to the New People, was: "To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss

About the S-21 Security prison.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The site is a former high school which was used as the Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the communist Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. Tuol Sleng is a Khmer name meaning "hill of the poisonous trees."

There is just too much......too much that most people, including myself never knew, and I am a history teacher.....Everyone learns about the holocaust, which was devasting and vast, but that is just one incident.....there are so many more.

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