The Killing Fields

We spent a sobering morning in Phnom Penh visiting the Toul Sleng Museum, where prisoners of war arrested by the Khmer Rouge were tortured before being taken to the killing fields outside of town. This monument at the killing fields Is a memorial to 20,000 Cambodians who were executed, beheaded and thrown into mass graves and is one of many in the country. The Khmer Rouge ruled from 1975-79. It's amazing to realize that this happened in our lifetime, and I was barely aware of this genocide.