We were only in Cambodia for a few days, but I took the most pictures here. It's an amazingly beautiful country with resilient people. I can only hope that it continues to heal from its brutal past and more people will discover what a lovely place it is.
Enjoy!
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What an incredible, diverse, gorgeous world we live in.
What are we doing fighting wars???? Let's just all go enjoy each others' histories!!!
I would be interested if you ever felt like sharing the stories your guide told you about life under the Khmer Rouge regime. Sometimes the best history lessons are the personal accounts, for good or for bad.
Thanks again for sharing.
I'd be happy to share. I want to do some of my own research as well so I can put it more into context. What was mindboggling to me was how our guides each had the same kind of story, but then if they were over a certain age and still alive, then of course they would have the same stories. Around 2-3 million people were killed, a million from slaughter, another million from starvation and the rest are in question.
As for justice, everyone in any position of power claims they can't prove who did any of it. Pol Pot died in 1989 without ever being convicted of any crimes.
The second part of tragedies like this is that those of us in the U.S. just close our eyes, our ears, our mouths to it all.
We are outraged when one of our cities is attacked, when elsewhere in the world people deal with that on a daily, hourly basis.