Phnom Penh 2

This email is a little graphic. If you have a weak stomache than skip thefirst paragraphYesterday in the morning we went to the killing fields where more than 9000bodies were found of men, women and children. They had a memorial of a hugetower of skulls of the people that had died there. It was very sad. Becausethe regime was poor, they didn�t use bullets, but they used hammers,bayonettes, and stones (violent deaths.) They had a tree with a microphonethat would amplify their moans when they were being killed in order toencourage them to be quiet. They also had a tree where they would take thebabies from their mothers and bash their heads against the tree to kill them.Or they would throw the children up in the air and stab them with theirbayonettes. They would do this all in front of their mothers. We went to ahigh school turned prison by the regime. Their were hundreds of pictures ofmen, women and children that were killed their. They would kill the familiesin order to make sure they didn�t come back for revenge. 14,000 people wereheld their but only 7 made it out alive. We walked through the class roomsmade into cells and saw pictures of what they found when they liberated theprison: people being tortured in terrible ways. They also had personal storiesabout people who were in the Khmer Rouge to show that they were people too.We then went to the king�s palace and the silver pagoda. They had a life sizegold statue with over 9000 diamonds. Some of them were over 25 carats. It wasquite impressive. We are off to Vietnam right now to spend the day in Saigonand then we are going to be in Danang tonight.