Travel to Cambodia, Sihanoukville.

So after a nights rest from the rain - it didn't stop until early hours of the morning , we went on a trip to visit the killing fields and S-21 prison. Although Cambodia is safe country now, it was only free from the Khmer Rouge in 1998. I didn't really understand what had happened with regards to Pol Pot so this was a good opportunity to learn the history of Cambodia. Briefly for people who do not know who Pol Pot was he basically believed in communism and trained an army of children to take over the country and try to take the country to the basics of humanity, everyone was taken out of there houses and cities and were sent to work in the fields, the borders were closed and know one was allowed in or out in the late 79s until Vietnam intervened. People who were educated or did not believe in PolPot were taken at in trucks and told they were going to teach or nurse, however they were taken to S-21 prison

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