DISQUS

DrManette · 1 year ago

The most unfortunate thing about all the genocides besides the Holocaust is that they are both overshadowed and basically unknown. Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur... the list goes on, yet how many people even know where any of these places are? Even the Holocaust is unknown to a vast amount of people, and then there are those who deny its existence. This pattern of mass killings will just keep on going if people keep forgetting.

GAP · 1 year ago

thx for this interesting article. I published it in my german blog too:
http://www.legourmand.de/?p=909
The pictures on flickr from the prison are the most crewl thing I have ever seen. Cambodian Auschwitz.

Ladyexpat · 1 year ago

I had a difficult time with both places. I have since gone through Phnom Phen again, and refused to go back to either place. As I said to my friend, these are places that everyone should see once, but only once. I will have those scenes in my head forever.

Billigflug · 1 year ago

Fearful...

Jay Lardy · 1 year ago

Your reactions gave me a chilling flashback to my visit to Auschwitz and Berkenau in college. I actually blocked out a chunk of my trip - I have pictures of rooms I have no recollection of visiting. Human-kind's capacity for inhuman cruelty is staggering.

Janet · 1 year ago

Wow... It's amazing how cruel people can be.

Honestly, I'm not sure I'd be able to handle visiting that place.

khmerbird · 1 year ago

i lived here in Phnom penh for 15 years, but i not yet visit the place. i know the history, i read it quite well from the book, i heard it often from my parents.

i would prefer to keep it in mind that here is the history and there was the place where people kill people. maybe one day i will have enough courage to visit,

i would say there are many other places in Phnom Penh and in Cambodia that always wlecome tourist and people are really friendly. i am a bit sad that the museum got such a bad feeling and experience to the tourists ... maybe we should put some precaution.

but for sure Cambodia is a beautiful country and a nice place to live.

Chamroeun · 1 year ago

So great

vutha · 1 year ago

I felt shocked when i visited this site. My grade grandmother was killed during Pol Pot regime.

Jenny · 1 year ago

My memory of Pol Pot dates back in history class in gradeschool.

Busby SEO Test · 1 year ago

Wow... I can imagine how cruel this people can be.

megan · 1 year ago

I visited both the Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng while I was in Phnon Penh last month. I found it very confronting and heartbreaking, and I had to wonder how the rest of the world can sit back as this happens over and over again.

Like you, I couldn't stop wondering what Cambodia would have been like today if it had never happened. Wandering the streets of Phnom Penh, looking at all the gorgeous buildings that have been left to decay...It's something to think about.

busby seo test · 11 months ago

Its about politics, and i dont know whats in their brain when they killed other people