This is now a national monument, yet there's 43 mass graves that haven't been excavated. The bones are in the big building, but even on the walk paths you walk on half buried bones and teeth - like gravel and roots in the soil.
This field took the "supply" of the Tuol Sleng torture prison. People wanted to die so bad in Tuol Sleng that they put barbed wire mesh around so they couldn't jump off to commit suicide. Torture was usually 2-4 months. Bullets were expensive, so hoes, shovels, bamboo sticks, ox cart axles, hammers, hatchets, the sharp edge of a palm branch were used. Infants and small kids were held by their feet and beaten against the trunk of a big tree. Anyone educated, who wore glasses, spoke French or English basically.
Here's a Christmas present, be thankful for living in Canada. There's a reason all our guides are 28 or 29 and raised by single parents. Our tour guide for this site was 17 in 1979, and lost both parents. He put a strong personal statement on how stupid it all was (why eliminate the educated class? the masses are easier to control. why kill babies? so you eliminate those who would look for future revenge).
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