Genocide Museum - downer post...

Billed as a must-see, this museum houses photos, human remains and stories of the torturous atrocities commited by the Khmer rouge regime under Pol Pot.

The raison d'etre of S21, as it is also called, is to prevent this from ever happening again. However, in the few hours that I spent there I feel pretty certain that somebody somewhere was being tortured in real life. Wars are still being fought, suffering happens every day, and the human species is not likely to ever learn the ways of peaceful coexistence. War has always been a part of the human existence. Mass psychology led by a single individual will most often be the root cause.

Of the estimated 18,000 plus executed prisoners, only 7 survived. The last person of these seven was sitting at the exit greeting visitors.

We would like to think that the USA operates on a higher ethical standard, but bombing by the USA killed over 100,000 Cambodian farmers during the Vietnam war. The USA is responsible for many conflicts in the name of monetary profits.

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