Today
we began the morning with an amazing serve of orange juice, coffee
and french toast... Sometimes you just need some good home cooking,,,
Don't worry Dad, it was no where near as good as your French toast!
We headed out today to see the S 21 detention centre for the Khmer
Rouge Regime, which was actually originally a high school. In 1975,
after Pol Pot won power of the government, he made all 3 million
residents of the capital to leave the city and walk to the regional
cities. He began capturing acidemics, doctors, engineers, past
politians and bringing them to this detention centre for questioning,
torture and eventually, to be executed at the famous killing fields.
Pol Pot continued this for 3 years, 8 months and 20 days until
vietnam liberated Cambodia. Over 3 million people were executed in
mass genocide – the torture techniques where too sad to write about
and the way the women and children were treated disgusting! It is a
very sad history....
On
a lighter note, we saw the amazing Cambodian Royal palace and tonight is our last night in Cambodia as tomorrow we
venture to Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam.
