Killing Fields

This morning we took a 45 minute tuk-tuk ride to the killing fields. The killing fields is an eerily calm piece of land where the Khmer Rouge took many victims and innocent families to be killed. There is a commemorative memorial holding hundreds of skulls, bones, and clothes of the many people murdered. It is really a very strange place, as the scenic ponds and greenery make it hard to believe so many terrible things occurred on the very ground your walking on. However, the you are reminded of the truth as you see numerous mass burials and step on clothes of the victims in the ground beneath your feet (the rain has washed and uncovered many remains, most have been collected and put on display)

There are many frightening spots in the killing fields such as the tree where executioners smashed babies and young children against, the "magic tree' where they blasted music from loud speakers to block out the screams of pain, and the burial sites of 'bodies without heads' and 'women and children without clothes'.