Genocide Museum & Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Genocide Museum & Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

I’m really not a history buff. I’m the kind of person who can hear a roll of facts and figures and have each one go straight through her head. Who can read an entire signpost and not recall a single thing it said. Who thinks more with her heart than with her head.

And so I will not be giving you a history lesson here on the Khmer Rouge. Instead I will tell you that spending a day at the Genocide Museum and the Killing Fields in Phnom Penh was a somber day, it was powerful and weighed heavy on my heart and made me tear up a bit thinking that, much like when I visited Auschwitz, what we could think of as “history” was really, dangerously, too recent…

Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Genocide Museum & Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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