Apotheosis of War - the Killing Fields of Cambodia
25 February 2011
The Killing Fields at Choung Ek extermination camp. Prisoners were
brought here from the grim S21 [Toul Sleng] prison to end their lives
in mass graves.
The memorial tower contains over 8 thousand skulls sorted by age and gender....it is many stories high and bagpipe-like music is playing around it. I shiver remembering my encounter with it. My brain is still struggling to compute how such horror could be brought to a nation by its own leader - one of the very people he executed..
THEIR CROSS
BABY-SMASHING TREE
MASS GRAVE LOCATIONS
DUTCH - THE FORMER HEAD OF S21 - THE ONLY ONE OF THE KHMER ROUGE LEADERS ON TRIAL WHO HAS ADMITTED GUILT AND SHOWED ANY REMORSE....
