Today is November 13 in Cambodia. We remember our First and Second World wars on November 11. It somehow seemed timely today to visit Cambodia's Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng, the Genocide museum - the prison where countless prisoners were tortured under Pol Pot's Communist regime. The most poignant moment was meeting one of the 5 children who survived by hiding in the kitchen of the prison when liberated by Vietnamese soldiers... he was born in 1970 and with tears in his eyes described the loss of his Mom and family except for one brother in this prison of torture. Pol Pot killed 3 million between 1975 and 1979. It was a sad, emotional visit to one of the worst genocides in recent history.
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