http://bakersincambodia.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/the-killing-fields-of-choeung-ek/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:23:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://bakersincambodia.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/the-killing-fields-of-choeung-ek/#comment-4 bakersincambodia Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:23:14 +0000 http://bakersincambodia.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-4 As a follow up to this, we visited later in the week the school that was converted into a torture center. 20,000 people, women, men and children were tortured, and later taken to the killing fields. only 7 survived. We will likely not post on it b/c it is too graphic, and frankly we don't even like talking about it, it's the most gruesome thing I have ever experienced. I really nearly vomited, and had to run out. I feel a little bit like not saying much is not giving the whole story of why or how Cambodia is the way it is, but I think the killing fields is explanation enough. As a follow up to this, we visited later in the week the school that was converted into a torture center. 20,000 people, women, men and children were tortured, and later taken to the killing fields. only 7 survived. We will likely not post on it b/c it is too graphic, and frankly we don’t even like talking about it, it’s the most gruesome thing I have ever experienced. I really nearly vomited, and had to run out. I feel a little bit like not saying much is not giving the whole story of why or how Cambodia is the way it is, but I think the killing fields is explanation enough.

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