Thoughts In Cambodia

I went to the Toul Sleng Museum today.

During Pol Pot's regime from 1975-1979, the Toul Sleng was a prison called S 21 prison. It housed prisoners against the Khmer Rouge. Actually, it was a lousy excuse for a genocide.

Amazing how communism can incite such hatred against the educated and the priviledged. To kill 2 million people in 4 years is certainly a huge logistical success. So were the Holocaust, Rwanda's genocide and Nanking Massacre.

Ultimately, guns will always rule over logic and reasoning, for the simple fact that shooting someone is infinitely easier than converting someone over to your side.

I've been fine lately, been sleeping in a lot of air con guesthouses :) so wasting a lil more money then i expected. Oh well well. 1st week is over, now for the 2nd week up.

actually, cambodia is a country of unexpected paradoxes. amidst the ruins of war and terror, they are rebuilding their lives through the capitalist system, run by a dictatorial Hun Sen. Hopefully, the children of Cambodia can see beyong their fractured past and build for a better tommorrow. Poi Pet was the Wild Wild West, where dusty roads and beggars filled the streets. Siem Reap was seedy, a lil unsettling, but in Phomn Penh, it feels just like Bangkok or even a Singapore in the 1950s.

And it's the Khmer New Year, so more water splashes. SHIT.

Happy New Year, Cambodia

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