A heavy day today firstly a tuk tuk out to the killing fields. The audio tour was good and required since what buildings were there were destroyed. On the site now is a memorial full of skulls recovered from the hundreds of mass graves dotted around.
Unlike their national treasure Angkor Wat, where it was great to be allowed to climb all over the temples, this didn't feel right walking over areas where you can clearly see clothes and bones starting to appear in the dirt path. Caretakers continuously collect clothes and bones as they become visible particularly in the rainy season. This site was only one of hundreds country wide that have been located so far. If you look closely in the picture of the ground you will see bones and clothes that are just now surfacing.
From the killing fields we went back in to town to visit S-21 the school converted in to a torture prison which housed the people before they were sent to the killing fields. In one building of the school the classrooms were divided in to cells with bricks(see pic). Much of the school was empty classrooms with a small steel frame bed(no mattress) & shackles, a photo on the wall showed what/who was found in each room. There were 7 survivors of this prison, one who recently passed away painted several memories he had of the place and these are on show along with photos of inmates and testimonies prisoners were forced to sign saying they committed crimes against the Pol Pot regime.
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