Cambodia history

Entry - Jess and Randy

Today was really sad first I have to back up and let you know that we had to go back to the airport to get a working Visa for Jess so that would be one less thing to do later and I'm glad we did it right away since it takes 2 days to process. Then off to killings point I have to tell you not knowing alot of what happened here in the past was really bringing me to a place I knew not much about, any way we get their they have an audio tour that you put a number in at the stop of which you were with some little exerts off to the side if you wanted some more information so we started walking and boy how sad. here's a guy much like hitler a dictator that was paranoid well educated and of course a control freak he shut down all the schools, churches, all places of worship destroyed the buddest temple destroyed the main banks papers ect basically placing the country in a state of panic and being paralyzed. His army became the entire population and anyone that showed any type of rebellion was imprisoned and later killed. as we walks through this place you could see where their was like open areas where they had dug a hole about 25 by 30 by about 7 feet deep and these were the graves for the people that were imprisoned they would be tortured to a point were they would sign a form stating that they were spies or detectors and this gave them the right to kill them. It started to be like 30 or 40 per 3 week period as time progressed it was like 30 to 60 per day they were not shot they would be decapitated or Beaten to death with hoes sticks knives bats ect then stripped of their clothing and thrown into the pits they would sprinkle DDT over the bodies to cover the sent of the decay but the DDT also would kille them incase their would be one that was still alive when put into the grave kids women young adults didn't matter nation wide their are like 10 know grave sites like this and get this as many as 3 million people were killed by their own people that was 1/3 of their population. Can't believe this happen in 1975 through 1979 before the government was finally driven for Cambodia so hard to believe that that could happen in this day. VERY VERY SAD they had a monument that had all the bones and skulls that have been found to date at this site.
Then off to the placed called prision 21 this is where all the people were tortured and sentenced to finally end up at killings point not a lot here to see nor at the killings point for when the government was finally removed from power and people started to rebuild they had little or nothing to start with so they pillaged anything they could to start over so not much for building or history other than the fact it was real and very painful there was a song on tape that I played going through the grave site sent goosebumps and chills and very possible brought tears to the eyes of many unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!