The Killing Fields of Cambodia - Are they Worth Remembering?

Killing the field in Cambodia - It is worth remembering. "I know that the other experiences experienced by Cambodia over the past 10 years are different from what I experienced.In the postwar European concentration camps have a big tragedy So ​​far, Reactions were sensitive to the events that occurred 40 years ago, but for Cambodia, for a special reason, I left a strong impression the world wants - forgetting the tragedy of Cambodia - they I want to forget "SIR ROBERT JACKSON United Nations Deputy Secretary General January 1983 (qtd.

I destroy the battlefield - I vaguely know the massacre of the 1970s Pol Pot and the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, but this is also not what we have learned at school. Vietnam War? of course. It is not Cambodia. Visiting the battlefield of killing beyond Cambodia makes the reality of these atrocities more real. Travel has this ability - it brings history to life and makes us understand that these things happen to the real people. Elephant travel reality - Before I started planning my first trip to Asia, I used to ride "elephant" on my list. But then I began to understand the reality of elephant sightseeing in Southeast Asia - how animals are being abused and being destroyed and carrying people. When I arrived in Thailand, I decided to volunteer in the sanctuary of the elephant instead of a thick skinned animal.

I was born in 1980 near a refugee camp on the border of Thailand and Cambodia. This is the result of the killing of one million Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge Communist government. It is very traumatic for them, so my parents have never talked about a lot about that time. I am still young and I do not remember. I know that my parents died the first spouse in the meantime. "I was the poorest person in this class, the only Cambodian, at that time, I did not think other people were actually poor, but even the poorest poor still have a hierarchy It is difficult to keep, I was made fun of the wrong shoes or the same shirt for several days.