I had no idea what the Killing Fields were before I went on my world trip. I want to say that I never learned about what happened in Cambodia from 1975-1979 in school, but to be honest with you I can't remember. This place was kind of creepy to me. When I started traveling through South America I heard people talking about the Killing Fields in Cambodia and I was told that I had to go there. Once I arrived in Phnom Phen I actually found out the history of what happened in this country during that time period. During this 4 year period, somewhere around 200,000 people were executed and 1.2 million people were killed from disease or starvation (info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields). Check out the video. It was shot at Choeung Ek. Where there were mass graves found here from people that were executed for nothing! I am going to blog more about the killing fields in the upcoming month. Peace
