CAMBODIA | Saturday, 23 January 2010 | Views [550]
Tuol Svay Prey High School was turned by the Khmer Rouge into what is now known as S21 – the most notorious of torture prisons. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979, I (Mi), was a toddler, safe on the other side of the world. I had no idea that what was being discovered were freshly killed victims, along with records of the most heinous acts human beings can do to another. 30 years later, I stop here to see, among the ropes and pliers and knives and chains, the prison's waterboarding mechanism. Waterboarding. We do this too, I whisper to myself.