Cambodia - See Cambodia from the glasses bacpacker tourists like me who only know very little about this country and saw firsthand in 2-3 days like to see two ironies.On one side of the amazing but on the other hand harass deepest conscience, touching the highest empathy and regret of a great nation's history. Cambodia is inhabited by several tribes with Khmer is the ethnic majority (90%) so it is often called the Khmer People with a population of about 14.5 million people. Viewing this country like to see a new country that would grow in the 1980s.
A testament to the greatness of Angkor Wat Cambodia
The trip to Siem Reap to the Angkor region Archipelago Park with a super large temple area and my eyes will magically open admiration of a great empire that respected the past. The temple building is very large, antique, area, magical, a transverse gate, stone carvings on the temple complex at once opened my eyes to the beauty of artistic people that the days of frangipani. The composition of the stone is made with no slotted meeting ended with a carving genius of the people the legacy of history that ultimately resulted in a great great work that has begun eroded by the travel time but she is still solid for a great work of the first.
Stone crushed one by one into a good form of three-faced head, medusa-headed snake, small carvings of a man lined up, piled, female dancers called Dancing Asparas, gates, paths, or the main road to the altar of worship or place of the monks, it last thing I can say is just extraordinary. The area is very spacious temple to a tourist takes a week to really look at all and to an artist takes years to trace the history of a great fabric and it took forever for this nation who inherited the temple to admire, respect, protect and bring the nation's heritage this to the world a prosperous and open the eyes of the world to them that they are a great nation the days before now and the future.
Then I continued the journey is still in the area of these temples, as long as the eyes see as far as stepping foot there is an irony. The irony of nature that brings to mind my curiosity, why are they so poor they are a great nation. Throughout the Angkor region is stepped foot lots that sell children, not dressed, even requesting the requested 1000riel or even $ 1USD for a photo with him. Then I saw electric lighting was still limited and the people who in my opinion is far fulfilled in clothing and food, I thought to ask what is wrong with all this in my view the greatness of their past history, should this nation is a great nation forward and respected in the present. I personally know these people because often some Hollywood artists adopt a child from here, then my mind is the means that there are many children who abandoned the country because it is certainly my Tomb Rider movie that takes place in one area of the temple.
But the irony is I did not really find the answer. And let this nation be given the time, thought and a chance to think about it while bringing the community towards the civilization of life that they were most proud to be a nation of Cambodia.
Tuol Sleng witness a decline
The only thing that bit me was answering questions when he arrived at Phnom Penh's Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum during the school had only a high school which is also known as Security Prison 21 (S-21) with five three-story building like the typical high school in Indonesia. Reportedly nearly 17,000 people were imprisoned and tortured here that most of them originating from the previous regime of Lon Nol regime. I never heard of Pol Pot as a tyranny of a major who was also a ruling that unfortunately wrong in running power. Many people were killed because of her but how, who, how they were killed, for what by what means and what consequences I do not really know all this. I know very little about it, one thing is for sure that I know is Pol Pot was dead.
We were taken to the museum accompanied by a friend of ours who happened to work in Phnom Penh. First of all I was taken into a room with a bed of iron, a crowbar and a box of tin plate, that's where an even hundreds of people were tortured, tied up and ended his life. The end of his life is really good because there are dead or still alive but not alive anymore, or even he no longer wanted his life. Each new prison will also photographed the soldiers polpot supporters.
Some characterized the same room with yag equipment used to torture thousands of people, I do not know the reason why. Looks like a crowbar to beat, bed iron to bind the body lay, a box of zinc is to put the nail removed. The next room is a room that increasingly challenge the conscience, as well as emotionally draining as well as thoughts of my heart because what I see is the sadistic murder with all the most sadistic manner. Some of my friends decided to not pursue other spatial because not all people have the mental preparedness even just watching through the picture and hear his story. Then I saw the faces of people who will get the treatment of torture with an extremely harsh interrogation law also face the innocent faces of the soldiers who unfortunately is still very young children but they used to be the means of murderer and torturer. As far as I heard this young soldier who took the role as executor of the brain seems they've actually washed. I was angry and also sad what happened to these people also with the leaders of questions that always buzzing is "WHY" how could people be so cruel this and believe me almost all the tourists who go there always have more or less the same question.
Turning Point which is ironic
The period of 1965 was better period they even according to the story, they're more advanced than Indonesia in terms of prosperity, technology and education. This nation is a former French colony. So no wonder they are following the English accent french accent. Then 1975 was the turning point, a turning point which is ironic because it happened in a dramatic transition of power, came a young man of Pol Pot he was a highly educated, with teaching French because she grew up in France and adopts communist wing. With all the strength that she had along with the military and their followers to overthrow the regime that is ruling, then the king to flee to France there was a power vacuum, they welcomed the arrival of an interpreter goes wild bag Salvation because they like to bring new hope to the people, before they actuallyaware of what will happen to them a period to come any minute.
In the same year Pol Pot began forcing everyone out of Phnom Penh and the exodus to the villages or outside the capital. All the houses emptied because they will start a new history. They will build a new Cambodia with new hope under the tyranny and the superiority of the new leaders of Pol Pot. Then all the people of foreign nationality were told to get out, each country's embassy was closed and that is left is itself frangipani frangipani quiet and tense. All the people of Lon Nol regime, including soldiers, government officials, academics, doctors, teachers, students, workers, the monks (monks), engineers or university graduates etc.. All these people and their families, except that there are also missionaries are all really scorch the earth tortured in interrogation tortured because they endanger the country or have important information that is hidden.
It seems the goal is for no one can really affect the power of Pol Pot or the new government. So begins a dark period for 4 years, a series of disappearances of all persons suspected of being captured and his family entered the interrogation chamber, again another nail also tied her hands lifted or hung upside down and his body was dipped into a container filled with water, then tossed the children who were shot. That look is all the ways to kill the most sadistic interrogations done arguing, really smart people and destroyed all may be true that Pol Pot was ready to build this country from point zero. The city is empty and all the people evacuated to the village and then moved again to the city and can choose which one they prefer houses that are uninhabited. Of course, educated people from the previous regime was not there so the government could now begin a new era free from the influence of previous regimes.
But the appeal to the world, making Vietnam attacked Cambodia in 1979, I do not know exactly how the course of its history but the power of Pol Pot actually fallen. In my opinion he was not long in power but the impact has hurt the eyes of the world for hundreds of years to come. The UN came in and began combing the disposal of corpses are also fields where the massacre skulls and skeletons everywhere thousands of human skeleton river and millions of people calculated to have become victims of Pol Pot's tyranny was horrible and NGO efforts then until now are trying to help this nation to restore this nation to the people who are willing to move to the new history.
That's ironic because they're still like newly independent so that poverty remains ubiquitous education and many other things because they have to spend a dark period that is too heavy to be released in the next step backwards. Today this country is very well known haven for pedophilia, trafficking was all because of difficulties of life are also likely to be living is not so valuable because they go through where they see and experience where the living is not respected.
His own city dry and irregular, limited electricity, education is still very low, this is all fairly representative picture of the dark period which they had just seen and experienced that they do not want to remember but somehow will always be immortal in the story to the story. I can assure that indeed they could be as advanced countries Thailand because they have history and the same cultural background as rich and large. The role of NGOs and the UN still very much needed here to help each individual while helping them rise from adversity.
Hopefully, this nation's history became a springboard for them to resume their lives and create their own history for their descendants. Of course a message to the whole world that the dark history of this nation has ruined the future of many people. Pol Pot only lasted 4 years, but a sense of hurt, feelings do not trust each other, resentment still will haunt this nation for hundreds of years ahead, but keep step with the belief that more Cambodian life because you are worthy.
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