“Bone and teeth fragments still come up during flooding and have to be regularly collected”… Well I’m glad it didn’t rain whilst we were there.

One of many mass graves amongst the fields where bodies were thrown and buried on top of each other, all lined with hundreds of bracelets. Many temples give you these saying they have been blessed by Buddha, and so we assumed this was the reason their were hundreds hung.

This was the area where the chemicals used to both hide the stench of the dead bodies, or to use on people who were being buried alive (bullets were scarce, so many other inhumane methods were adopted). The thorns of these trees were one of the inhuman ways they would exemplify the suffering.

The hardest part of the killing fields was these signs in place of where things would happen or buildings that use to exist. It was eerily quiet and kind of spooky standing there with the audio guide playing, but it was hard to picture just how many people were dumped in the one spot, or the events that took place.

Been in Cambodia for 3 weeks and I’m turning into somewhat of a local… Not really, it was just so dusty on the drive to the killing fields our tuk tuk driver Mr. C pulled over and kindly got us these and these combined with sunglasses were 100% necessary for the dust and not to mention the smells!

The following photos are not mine, I wasn’t brave enough to head to the protest, Elena (a girl volunteering in Siem Reap working with an NGO who is from Scotland and works for Amnesty International at home on the other hand was, she pretended she was a journalist and in turn got let right the way to the front of the crowds because Cambodian’s were desperate to get as much media of this spread throughout the world)