Скачать или смотреть S21 and Killing Fields, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Folan Finds Trip Around the World Day 47

This was one of the most eye opening days I've had on this trip. Here is a small description of these two locations, but I highly encourage you to read up in the history.

Cambodia is the home to one of the worst genocides in history. The communist party known as the Khmer Rouge (French for Red came into force in 1968, and from 1975-1979, Cambodia changed drastically, around 25% of the population (the most estimated is 3 million) being unlawfully and brutally executed, with no real reason. Pol Pot (the leader) wanted a peasant dominated society to triple its rice production, which lead to many deaths due to exhaustion from working. Suspicion also caused a significant amount of people to be killed. If you were arrested, you would be brought to the nightmare called S21. You would be interrogated and tortured for days or months until you admitted you worked for a spy agency (which wasn't true and was the only way for the torture to stop). Once you admit to being guilty, you were sent to the killing fields. If you wore glasses, or spoke a second language, it was a good enough reason to be killed. Children were routinely signed up to the Khmer rouge, and brain washed into killing their own people.