Petit changement de programme, nous allons faire le Cambodge puis la Thaïlande et la Malaisie. Nous arrivons donc jeudi soir au Cambodge à Phnom Penh.
Vendredi nous allons visiter la prison S-21 transformé en musée, cette ancienne école a été transformé en prison pendant la période des Khmers Rouges où ils torturaient et exécuter les personnes arrêtées arbitrairement (toutes personnes éduquées, ressemblant à des vietnamiens ou de la haute société...), on dénombre entre 12000 et 20000 victimes en moins de 4 ans (juste dans cette prison, c'est sans compter les morts de famine, etc... haaa les coco....) L'audio guide, les différentes histoires des 7 survivants et les nombreuses photos (parfait pour rendre son petit déjeuner) rendent la visite intéressante.
Nous continuons la journée avec un musée et le palais royale où séjournent encore le roi du Cambodge.
Pendant qu'Helen se repose je vais me faire couper les cheveux pour 5 euros, ça change des prix londoniens et ce n'est pas raté :o
A small change of plans - we're going to Cambodia, then Thailand, then Malaysia (flights were cheaper that way).
So on Thursday evening we arrived in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.
On Friday we visited S-21, an old secondary school-turned prison, place of torture and execution under the Khmer Rouge regime. Between 12000 and 20000 people were tortured here and executed (not counting the other prisons, those who died from famine or the 100 000 killed by US bombs in the preceding years) in under four years - the choice of victim was arbitrary: if you looked Vietnamese, if you spoke English or French, if you wore glasses (a sign you spent too much time reading), if you were a cadre of the Khmer Rouge that they decided was actually a traitor, if you were a foreigner, if you were educated, or if any member of your family had committed any of these crimes. You were tortured here until you 'confessed' your crimes, then taken to the Killing Fields to be bludgeoned to death (you wouldn't want to waste bullets, now, would you?). There are photos on the walls of the prison showing tha last 14 prisoners who were found when the Vietnamese liberated the prison. They'd been left tied to the metal bedframes in the cells but had been killed before the Khmer Rouge fled. Although hard to look at the photos really bring home the horror of what happened.
After that we went to the royal palace - much more pleasant! And Guillaume even braved a haircut in the evening, which actually isn't too bad - especially for $5.
Nous continuons la journée avec un musée et le palais royale où séjournent encore le roi du Cambodge.
Pendant qu'Helen se repose je vais me faire couper les cheveux pour 5 euros, ça change des prix londoniens et ce n'est pas raté :o
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| Prison S-21 |
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| Une cellule / Cell |
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| National Museum |
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| Palais Royal |
A small change of plans - we're going to Cambodia, then Thailand, then Malaysia (flights were cheaper that way).
So on Thursday evening we arrived in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.
On Friday we visited S-21, an old secondary school-turned prison, place of torture and execution under the Khmer Rouge regime. Between 12000 and 20000 people were tortured here and executed (not counting the other prisons, those who died from famine or the 100 000 killed by US bombs in the preceding years) in under four years - the choice of victim was arbitrary: if you looked Vietnamese, if you spoke English or French, if you wore glasses (a sign you spent too much time reading), if you were a cadre of the Khmer Rouge that they decided was actually a traitor, if you were a foreigner, if you were educated, or if any member of your family had committed any of these crimes. You were tortured here until you 'confessed' your crimes, then taken to the Killing Fields to be bludgeoned to death (you wouldn't want to waste bullets, now, would you?). There are photos on the walls of the prison showing tha last 14 prisoners who were found when the Vietnamese liberated the prison. They'd been left tied to the metal bedframes in the cells but had been killed before the Khmer Rouge fled. Although hard to look at the photos really bring home the horror of what happened.
After that we went to the royal palace - much more pleasant! And Guillaume even braved a haircut in the evening, which actually isn't too bad - especially for $5.
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