S-21 and The Killing Fields

We all set of early in the morning to venture out to S-21, the genocide museum where the Khmer Rouge imprisoned, tortured and killed over 20,000 people, including women, children, men and Khmer soldiers.
S-21 was originally a high school before the KR took power and decided to use the grounds as prison for those they believed were against the beliefs of the KR regime.
The three block of the schools were used as mass prisons and small cells housing up to 2000 people at a time. The bottom floor of block A was used to house officials of the KR that they believed to be corrupt. In these room they were shackled to a bed by their ankles and tortured until they died. In each room hangs a photo of the bodies which were found when the KR finally surrendered to the Vietnamese. Blood stains and objects of torture remain on the floor, as well as the beds, as a grim reminder af what happened there.
The upper floors were used to house prisoner on long bars shackled by their ankles and up to 30 on each. They would put at least 4 of these to a room where prisoner would not be aloud to move or talk even if they had to go to the toilet.
Block B had small cell that were no more than 2 meters long and 1 meter wide prisoners were shackled by the ankle and lay on the backs in this small dim space. They had to ask for permission ever to move or scratch and to use the small plastic bucket they were given to go to the toilet. If they didn't ask first or the KR guard thought they had donor wrong they would suffer great punishments. Many prisoner killed themselves to escape the inevitable. Death.
In these conditioners most prisoner suffered horrible skin diseases and malnutrition. If they didn't die from torture they died from starvation.
They bloody finger marks on the floor and pools of blood stains in the cell were a horrific visualization of what happened inside this prison but the most horrific thoughts are that mostly the tortures and soldiers were children and that no one has yet been prosecuted for this crime.
The Killing Field are mass graves where the KR took the prisoners from S-21 to be blugened to death and thrown in to a pit where up to 200 bodies lay. Babies were thrown in the air and caught on the end of knives are bashed against trees as if it was a sport. Prisoners were taken 20, 30, 40 at a time, blind folded, in the back of trucks to their doom. Some were held for a few days at a small prison at the killing fields and tourtered until the time came for them to be led, blind folded, to the edge of a pit where they nealt to receive the fatal blow. If they didn't die from that their throats were cut with razor sharp coconut palm leaves until they took their final breath.
Not yet have all the graves been opened at the field and they have already found 20.000 remains. The government has erected a Chedi that is filled with the remains and skulls of the dead. The Australian, American, New Zealand and other Forigners have all been sent back to their countries.
In the pits themselves you can still see the remains of clothing and bones that have not been exhumed and it's an eerie feeling as you walk amongst the graves. The poor children play amongst the grave sights and they rattle off details that I'm sure they don't understand the significance of. Their grubby clothes and faces only enhance the tragedy that has gone on here.