Every person coming to Cambodia to serve the people here must tour this torture and extermination camp. The most chilling image for me is the small pile of actual skulls of deceased Cambodians on display. You can see on top of each one a hole the size of a 8 penny nail. Pounding a nail in someone's head was a means of torture and eventual death. Gruesome to say the least.
However, this place is memorialized. I am told that Cambodians see this as something not to repeat. It is part of their past; but they hope it is not for their future. The "Killing Fields" event in Cambodia is an atrocity where a people group killed their own people group. To understand the vileness of this event, you must imagine Hitler killing only Germans rather than Jews. Both are horrific. But here in Cambodia the killing murdered thousands of their own people. I meditated on this and will ask the Cambodia Ministry Partners how they lived through this as children. I trust to gain a better understanding of Cambodian life and culture.
Yes, Toul Sleng is part of the recent past; but the historical past awaits me. Together with the team we will visit the Angor Wat temples in Northern Cambodia after the camp is over.
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