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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
