Sunday, February 14, 2010
The few days we have spent in Cambodia it has been beautiful and friendly smiling people surround us. The streets of Phnom Penh still have a frenzy of motorbikes to dodge and we can already communicate with the 5 words we know in Khmer that we learned the first day. Depending on the day though and what we choose to explore it can become very exhausting as everywhere in Cambodia if you look there is evidence of the Khmer Rouge's bloody revolution. The historical sites are wonderful to educate locals and foreigners and provide some type of memorial. But, the fact that prosecution of the Khmer Rouge leaders appears to be deadline-less and Pol Pot has already perished is repulsive. Not to mention the facts such as the Khmer Rouge killers occupying seats at the UN until 1991. Also, I feel that the more I learn about it the less I can fathom how any human being could possibly carry out a genocide killing around 2 million innocent people although it happened here, elsewhere and still in this day and age.
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