After the end of the Cambodian Genocide in 1979, life returned to ‘normal’. Or as normal as it could get after such an experience. But there are some interesting stories that came out of the aftermath of the genocide.
Category: Cambodia
S-21 and The Killing Fields
** This one’s not funny or entertaining, but it needed to be written. This is not for the faint of heart. ** 2 million people. That’s more than the populations of Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami, and San Diego combined. It’s 1/4 of the total population of Cambodia in 1975. It’s also the number of people that were imprisoned, tortured, and killed during the Cambodian Genocide under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.