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Beautiful Pagoda Full of Skulls :(

Jayden Blog Last Activity 8 years ago 426 views 4 comments


This Pagoda is full of people's skulls and first time you see it makes you stop thinking, almost stops your breathing. Here's small history of it:


The Killing Fields (in Khmer វាលពិឃាត viel pi-kʰiet) are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge (red khmers) regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). The mass killings are widely regarded as part of a broad state-sponsored genocite.


Analysis of 20,000 mass grave sites by the DC-Cam Mapping Program and Yale University indicate at least 1,386,734 victims of execution.Estimates of the total number of deaths resulting from Khmer Rouge policies, including disease and starvation, range from 1.7 to 2.5 million out of a 1975 population of roughly 8 million. In 1979, Vietnam (my country!) invaded Democratic Kamputchea and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime.


Cambodian journalist Dith coined the term "killing fields" after his regime from the fiels. I can say this visit was one of my most fascinating but most terrible places I have ever beer. Still I wish you all a nice beginning of the new week and take care where ever you are:) Hugs Jay

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8 years ago

cool picture thanks

darkknightreturns
darkknightreturns
8 years ago

Thanks for sharing Jayden man's inhumanity to man.

8 years ago

Thanks for sharing the picture and the history. I remember this so clearly. Was just as I was finishing my undergraduate studies and starting out in post-college life. The world stood by and just watched the genocide, much in the same way we watched the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. So tragic.

8 years ago

Oh my, just a short time ago, I think it was maybe 3 weeks ago I was watching a program called Expedition Unknown and they were in Cambodia to investigate the lost city of the Khmer Empire and one of the places they went in route was The Documentation Center of Cambodia, I believe it was in Phnom Penh but not positive, the main thing I remember about that show was that visit and he was in a room that just had tens of thousands of photos of people executed under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. Thousands upon Thousands of photos taken in most instances just before the person was executed, it was very saddening to say the very least, all these people murdered by other people, pure insanity and such a tragedy of epic proportions.