Cambodia has had a violent past.
That is a severe understatement, because when Pol Pot and the radical Khmer Rouge took over the country in 1975 they had a single goal: to create a communist utopia. The methods and mindset to achieve such a state was the use of domestic terrorism, ultimately resulting in the genocide of over two million Cambodians. Phnom Penh, the capital city, became the epicenter for the Khmer Rouge to live out their insane policies and practice their barbaric methods of torture and murder on the population. In this episode we explore Phnom Penh on todays terms before heading to the gruesome Choeung Ek, also known as the Killing Fields, where thousands of Cambodians met their untimely and overly violent deaths at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. After the shock of the Killing Fields we go to Tuol Sleng, also known as S-21, a former school turned prison by the Khmer Rouge. It was here that thousands of people were tortured by their captors and forced to live in confined cells before being sent out to the Killing Fields outside of Phnom Penh. The whole situation is impossible to describe or understand – I cannot begin to imagine what it was like to live through this. This one was hard to film, and even harder to edit.
That is intense, I couldn’t imagine how it would’ve felt to be there in a place where there were remains of real desisted babies and such… That would kinda stick with u for life. Well hope you guys had the time of ur life, and made many memories that u will take with u forever… You guys did what ony so many of us can only dream of doing in a life time and u did it in a years time… Way to go!!! And now I am that much smarter about my geography, lol. Welcome Home Guys!!
Shandi
It was definitely an unnerving experience, its hard to believe that these events took place so recently and its tragic to see how such a traumatic time in history is still affecting the country to this day.