Things
you may not know about Cambodia:
+
has been a nation for 2,000 years
+
civil war for 5 years, beginning in 1970
+
day after war, Khmer Rouge began taking steps to change the country
into a farming-communist society
-abolished
all money
-stopped
private property, schools, modern medicine, and religion
+approximately
2,000,000 people died, 30% of the population, over a 4 year period
-the
educated were targeted first
-people
were forced out of their homes, families were separated
-long
days of work, with very little food
+
people were killed in gruesome ways; it was said that their lives
weren’t even worth being shot by a bullet
-taken
out to the fields and beaten to death
-kids
were forced to kill as well
+
the north-west is still filed with land mines
+
about half of the population is under the age of 20
+
about 80% is under the age of 30
+
about 3% of the population is older than 65
only
a little glimpse of the reality of what happened
killing
fields – hundreds of bodies were found in this field of mass graves
much
love!
