{"id":920,"date":"2012-06-11T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=920"},"modified":"2012-12-26T12:41:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T18:41:22","slug":"mission-to-cambodia-day-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2012\/06\/11\/mission-to-cambodia-day-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission to Cambodia Day 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mission to Cambodia 2012<\/strong>
\nfrom Emily Graehler<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>We have been learning about the horrific history of Cambodia for several months now.\u00a0 However, for me, today was when reality truly sunk in.\u00a0 It was not until I walked into the buildings at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.\u00a0 My emotions were rocked as faces of hundreds if not thousands of people stared back at me.\u00a0 These were the images of every single victim who was killed in the prison at Tuol Sleng.\u00a0 To give you some history, Tuol Sleng was a former security office called S-21 in \u2018Democratic Kampuchea,\u2019 which was created on orders of Pol Pot in April 17, 1975.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>It was designed for detention, interrogation, inhuman torture, and killing after confessions of the \u2018prisoners\u2019 were received and documented.\u00a0 Many of the prisoners were innocent Cambodians who were tortured until they confessed their crime.\u00a0 The vast majority of them had not committed any crime at all, so in order to stop the torturous acts against them, they would confess to things they never actually did.\u00a0 I was speechless as I walked through each room of the four main buildings, which were wrapped in barbed wire.\u00a0 They kept most rooms the way they had been left when they discovered this prison during the liberation of Cambodia.\u00a0 What I felt when I walked through that museum is\u00a0a feeling I cannot describe, but one I will never forget.\u00a0 I will never fully understand why the Khmer Rouge committed such horrible acts of violence.<\/p>\n

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