Cambodia

Cambodians are a happy lot that seemed to have moved on from Pol Pot far more than the tourists that visit. Its hard to get over the gruesomeness and horror of the events that happened here only 25 years ago when Pol Pot inflicted a genocide that tortured and murdered any intellectual on an unreal scale. Wearing glasses was enough to have branded you intellectual and have you and your entire family picked up and shipped to the torture camp S21 and then on extracting a admittance of guilt which was often given just to end the pain, transported out to the country and clubbed to death. Babies were beaten against a tree and the remnants of bones can still be seen coming out of the ground. The entire family was murdered through fear that a family member may grow up and attempt revenge.

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