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Just horrible
I know Hogga, it’s so hard to grasp.
Everyone should see this place. Perhaps then there would be ore peace on Earth. Your pictures brought tears to my eyes 🙁
Didn’t mean to make you cry Maria, but yes everyone should see this. I hope it would bring piece on Earth, but sadly don’t think that will ever happen.
Wow…just horrible. I can’t believe the evil that exists in this world.
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I know Andi, it’s hard to imagine such evil on Earth. It’s here though & we have to help prevent it.
As soon as I read, “…against which executioners beat children” my heart sunk to my stomach. By showing these photos on your blog, I hope it raises people’s awareness for how important it is to spread human compassion.
I know Patricia, it was so sad to visit and hard to take in. I’m just happy they share this with us to help stop it from happening again.
Seriously depressing place. It has so much more impact being there and seeing those things for yourself rather than just reading about it. It pains me that things like this happen.
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I know it’s so damn sad Ali & until you go there and see for yourself you can not feel the impact it really has on you when you are there. It’s hard to even fathom that something like this really happened… & like yesterday!!
A punch in the heart…
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A big one Giulia.
Visiting these places really sincerely changed me at my core. I think not only was I shocked at the way humans can treat each other, but also realized how genocide is not something of the past. We tend to put it to WW2, nazis, etc, but when I realized this ended the year I was born, and that since then there have been other cases of genocide that I just never paid attention to, it broke my heart to think how blind I have been allowed to be, how lucky I have been to never experience this, and just how many millions of people have suffered in ways I can’t even imagine. But I think seeing this, experiencing this, is so important – and if everyone did, there would be much more of an inclination towards maintaining peace.
Agree with everything you sai Jessica I felt the same way. It’s something I just didn’t know much about either until I started following backpacking blogs and well then I read books about it & then I actually visited. It sad that so many genocides have happened since WWII and are still happening today and think if more people learned about some of the ones that happened here not many would be allowed to happen. Sadly though most people continue to live their lives caught up in their own drama they never realize how lucky they are to have the things they do. Anyway I know you’ve read the 1st book but if you haven’t read the 2nd one you should check it out… it’s such a good read with more insight on the Killing Fields.
I visited this place 2 years ago. You should explain what the first picture is about and how the executioner would use those saw-like palm branches edges on their victims.. I consider myself a hardened person and would not be easily effected emotionally, but this place is just something else. I’ll encourage other people to visit this place. but i myself will never visit the killing field again. It is just too depressing
Hi Ben, oh I did explain about the saw-like branches in what I wrote. I felt like that is so important and well I agree with you I don’t think I could ever go to it again. It is just a hard place to visit and very sad to see, but still feel like it’s something everyone should see.