Khmer Rouge

Cambodia has lived through a turbulent, bruttle, and bloody history. The Khmer Rouge regime devestated this country in the 1970's under the command of Pol Pot. Trying to create a supreme Khmer race, 2 million Cambodians were systematically toutured and killed. Anyone who was from the city, who was educated, who had worked for the government, had been a monk, or had any connection with the Western world was brought to work camps where they were starved and literally worked to death. We visited the killing fields and torture camps located outside of Phnom Pehn which brought a real human element to the facts.

All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing. Pol Pot got away without once suffering for the evils of his regime--the world owes it tohis victims to ensure that this never happens again. These cannot be just words, because it is happening...Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Sudan, and even modern Cambodia in which political freedom is by no means issued. We must pressure our governments and be activists for freedom.