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I have been living in Cambodia for two years now and I have met many people who lived through the Khmer Rouge. When they are telling me their personal stories it always breaks my heart and I still don’t understand how this was allowed to happen.
TammyOnTheMove recently posted..Climbing Cotopaxi – And why you shouldn’t mess with your wife when she has altitude sickness
Tammy, those are my thoughts exactly I still don’t know how the world let this happen. What’s worse is that we are allowing it to happen again in other parts of the world. Like what is happening in Syria today? I just will never understand how our world really functions.
Great example of the special things that travel can bring us :). I agree with your thoughts. It like ‘travelling’ almost becomes an open mentality to life rather than just physically moving from one place to another. 🙂
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Yes Jimmy, it’s these small moments that make travel just that much more amazing. It changes us to the core and something that can never be taken from us.
Beautiful and heartbreaking story, Jaime! Amazing you’ve been getting your hair cut there for 10 years and only just found out this woman’s sad story. Travel does things you never imagine. This post brought tears to my eyes.
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I didn’t mean to make you cry Ali, but yes it’s crazy what travel can do to someone.
Thanks for sharing this story. I should check out those books you recommended!
Heather, you really should check out those books if you can. They are seriously some of the best books I’ve ever read and I cried just so much because it’s heartbreaking.
“I love that I have learned travel doesn’t just connect us with people we meet on the road, but with people from those countries we meet at home as well.” Yes! This post was so incredibly moving and well written. Thank you for sharing.
Happy travels 🙂
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Thank you so much Lauren. I am happy I was able to share this with everyone. It was a small moment in my life that turned out to be one I’ll never forget.
I read this story on Facebook when you posted it. It’s a very moving story, and a shame more people do not know more about the atrocities that happened during the reign of Pol Pot.
Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks Erik, it really is so moving and I do wish more people learned about what Pol Pot did to the people of Cambodia.
You never know each other’s stories until you begin to listen 🙂
So damn true Toni!
I didn’t know about the Khmer Rouge or what happened there. Thanks for sharing this. At the end of the day we’re all people– we’re all human and each of us has our story. Sometimes we forget that.
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Priya, I’m glad I was able to teach you a bit of world history. This is an atrocity that is just not talked about and how the world let happened is beyond me. If you can I would highly suggest reading one of those books to understand it just a bit more.
It’s amazing that I didn’t even learn about the Khmer Rouge in school considering what an atrocity it was! I didn’t even find out about it until I went to Cambodia! What a shame.
I know Chad, I too never learned about this in school. It’s a shame this is just not taught and no one talks about it either. It’s just sad.
Powerful story. I’m going to have to look those books up. It’s funny what you don’t ever end up knowing about unless you travel and really connect with people. I have always loved that aspect of travel.
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Yes Josh you should check out those books if you can. They are very interesting and very heart breaking. It’s crazy the things I have learned on the road. I have learned more on the road than I have in school.
This is such a great story, thanks for sharing! It’s funny, I recently had a similar experience visiting a Cambodian restaurant. The Cambodian owner and her American husband were incredibly friendly and soon they were showing us photos of Cambodia and eventually she told her story of how she came to the US. When she was a child her family’s house had been commandeered by the Khmer Rouge and she watched her father get shot and killed right in front of her. She recalled the walk from their city near Battambang over to Thailand with her sister and her mother. She told us about all the dead people, and heartbreakingly walking past the wounded and dying, having to leave them to suffer because there was nothing they could do. She too came to the US by boat like so many others. She told us that she still wakes up screaming at night, but not very often anymore.
Obviously we were almost in tears. My friend didn’t really know much about the Cambodian history at all and felt a little sheepish, but I did even though I haven’t been, mostly from a general interest in world history and of course travel blogs. I think it is so important to realize that you can learn so much about humanity by connecting to people and their stories. It makes you appreciate what you have but also feel more human by sharing a tiny piece of someone’s burden.
Oh Laura that is heartbreaking. It’s so hard to hear someones story when it’s such a tragic and gut wrenching story. All we can do is listen and truly appreciate what we have and that what we have been through will never be compared to what others have gone through. It’s these stories though that make us who we are and in the end connect us to one in other and help share our burdens like you mentioned.