today we are in Cambodia and we're on the back of a Tuk Tuk on the way to a very historical
place in Cambodia if you know me and if you know my channel you know that I'm usually
very happy and upbeat but it doesn't feel right to be that way today and you're understand
why so Cambodia has really lovely people and we've enjoyed being here it's very fun but
it does come with quite a dark past which we are going to go and learn about today it
wasn't that long ago that all of this happened so we're on the way to the killing field to
learn a little bit more about it and to share that with you if you can wait for us and we'll
pay you cash to come back we'll pay you it's seven is seven dollars okay to come back yeah
foreign
that's a dog um but this road is completely off-road so about to turn around and go back
I think we're going to take a shortcut but it didn't really work out so today hello hello
what's your name Josie
[Music]
yeah thank you
so today what language would you like for the
earphones
thank you thank you okay so we have just arrived it was six dollars to USD to get in each for
visitors we've been giving our headphones and a something to control our audio experience
so that they can tell us more about this as we're walking through I haven't done this
before so I'm going to try and figure it out for a second
I don't know
it was here in this place that trucks transporting victims from the prison we visit later on
in the video stopped the trucks would arrive two to three times a month and each truck
held 20 to 30 frightened blindfolded and Silent prisoners when the truck arrived the victims
were led directly to be executed at the pits someday as the number of victims to be executed
was increased up to over 300 victims per day executioners failed in attempts to kill them
all within one day so some were detained in prison for the execution the following day
while we were here we saw quite a few people sitting reminiscing remembering and crying
he was where the chemical substances like DDT were kept to scatter over the body straight
after execution this was to eliminate the stench from the deceased bodies but also to
make sure any survivors would be killed [Music]
there were multiple Hills and grave sites here that were just Mass Graves bodies on
top of bodies under the surface foreign
[Music]
I'm having like a moral dilemma where I don't feel like it's appropriate and it's like really
heavy I'm getting quite emotional but they were saying that this there's a big river
down there and they actually built this hole um to stop the flood so when the water came
in it would fill this part up rather than flawed but they were basically telling us
that they pretty much just buried people here they put people in the ground and now that
there's so much water basically a little Lake they're basically not going to recover those
bodies they're just going to let them rest and be in peace under all of that people have
passed right there it's quite a lot actually
I've never been to anything like this before and it is quite heavy you're saying like bits
of bone fragment all over the floor they're leaving those things to make it preserve it
as much as possible and you really heavy to think about and really sad and I was saying
that one in four people were one of the four people you know were taken [Music]
this was arguably the worst place of all a mass grave of over a hundred victims women
and children who were mostly naked right next to this tree where the unthinkable happened
to infants bones teeth and skeletal remains were collected but also littered all over
the grounds in order to in order to preserve the place as much as possible this tree played
music and it was some of the last things that these victims heard so we are heading now
to the stupa which is where the memory over on here is
foreign
[Music]
something right right a little bit [Music]
oh okay
thank you that's for you thank you so much I just tried to tell him thank you for waiting
I'm not actually sure if I said it right in camera but I tried my best thank you thank
you so here at the prison I've got a little bit of a headache and I'm a little bit emotional
the ride back was a lot of thinking about that was a lot of people's last Journeys and
they came from this place to where we just came from we went the opposite way on a truck
and when they got there they were killed so it was a little bit of an emotional Journey
on the way back and they were kept here so that's why we've come to this prison is to
show you and to experience where they were held before they were taken out to where we
just were in the fields foreign
[Music]
[Laughter]
you have driver yeah yeah thank you [Music] happy thank you so we're just heading now
towards the square we're going to go to like the National Monument area all the independence
Monument area it's got the best sunsets in Phnom Penh and this is our last night hit
it on pen and get some happiness back into the day after that very hard to do after seeing
and hearing things like we did today it's one of those things that I think you have
to do when you're here I know some people can say I want to avoid the touristy things
but there's so much to be learned from it that I'm so glad we did it even if it doesn't
make you feel the best to do it sister day
so what a great place to come and talk about what we experienced today than somewhere magical
like this the sun's about to set there's people out with their families with their kids with
their dogs today was pretty heavy um I've liked being on the verge of crying like 10
times like right now we've from our stay here we've got a lot of like watch your stuff or
things can get snatched and I'm sure it happens it happens everywhere but from what we've
experienced cambodians are such nice and friendly people and
for them to have gone through like all of that I'm like getting emotional for them to
have gone through all about tragedy and come out the other side lovely what's crazy is
like most of these people here have been directly affected by it we're not talking about 100
200 100 200 300 years ago we're talking about in these people's lifetime these people have
gone through such traumatic tragedy I can't even imagine it nothing like that has ever
happened to me probably will never happen to me so courage from these people is pretty
pretty commendable if we're thinking of Pol Pot and you're thinking of the Khmer Rouge
you're probably gonna think especially if you're from the West I know that this is what
I had in mind beforehand you're probably going to think of children and people with lost
limbs from the landmines planted around this area a really long-lasting leftover consequence
and and thing of what happened around that time and coming up in a few videos we're actually
gonna go and meet some animals that are doing the work for humans in helping those landmines
so we have had such a good time in Phnom Penh and it's my first experience being in Cambodia
today we saw some pretty tragic things but I think it's essential to learning a little
bit more about Cambodia and where it has come from and why it is the way it is today so
it's been a pretty heavy day but I would love if you liked my videos to like And subscribe
and I'm really excited to show you just what else there is here in Cambodia and I'll see
you in the next one bye