Throughout Cambodia the signs of one of the worst genocides and most horrifying and perplexing brutalities of all time are in plain view. The Khmer Rouge killed 1.7 million of its own people, brutalized millions more in horrific labor camps, starved the people and killed them when they became useless. I will be posting a series of pictures of pictures taken by the Khmer Rouge inside a high school in Phnom Penh that the Khmer Rouge converted into a torture and extermination facility, while forcing two million residents to evacuate the city into labor camps throughout the countryside. Even today, former members of the Khmer Rouge are welcomed into the ranks of one of the most corrupt and repugnant governments on the planet, a government that continues to starve its people and ensure that the populace remains illiterate and uneducated, while the "elite" fleece the country of financial support mostly from China and demand bribes and payola from the impoverished. 35% of the country makes less than $1 a day. Those who criticize the government still disappear. As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, parents sell their 12-year old girls into prostitution as the sex tourists prey on this people's suffering.
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