I thought that this deserved a post on its own. On the last leg of today's race, we had to go to Choeng Ek, the Pol Pot killing fields where a lot of the Khmer Rouge genocide was carried out between 1975 and 1979. We walked around a little to honour the souls of those innocent killed. Notice the monks who came to pay their respects.
I can't even begin to describe the horror that we all felt when we walked amongst the shallow graves, or when we saw the tree against which Pol Pot's soldiers beat children.
I bought 'Surviving the Killing Fields', a first-hand account of the genocide.
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