First of all a VERY brief history lesson of what I understand of Cambodia's recent past. Between 1975 and 1979 Cambodia was ruled by the Khmer Rouge, which was led by Pol Pot. I can't think of a word strong enough, but evil doesn't even come close to what the Khmer Rouge did to the people of Cambodia. Young, old, educated, people that wore glasses, monks, it seems noone could escape them. They tortured innocent pople and in those 4 years about one quarter of the population (no exact figures exist) of Cambodia were murdered. So for the first day we went to Toul Sleng Genocide Museum, which is also known S-21 (Pol POt used numbers for everything it seems, as all the roads are numbered instead of named). This is an old high school
... read more