By kotaro Ryuto
Last July, 11-14 we had our field trip in the Cambodia in order to explore and analyze the culture and history in the Cambodia. In our first day we went to a Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh the capital of Cambodia. Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a former secondary school which was used as security prison by the Khmer rouge regime from 1975 to 1979. As I tour the prison, the tour guide explained how brutally the prisoners was tortured and in each prisoners room there was a steel bed where they are being tortured and there was also a picture of the prisoners after they are being tortured in their respective room. The building of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is used to conserve, preserve, it is also use for educational purposes the historically unique and documentary collection from the former S-21 prison and interrogation center. It is estimated that over 15,000 prisoners were detained during the regime and the collection illustrates the fate of the prisoners. The genocide tragedies that happed in the Cambodia are transformed in to empower their culture to educate and use as a historical museum and cultural production and consumption activities by the tourists.
We also visited the killing fields, where mass number of killings happened. In the killing fields, we saw where all the prisoners were killed, some of the clothes of the victims were also preserved and there were still some bones of the victim visible in the ground. I was shock when I saw the pile of skeleton heads arrange in the builds, it shown how brutal the mass killings happened in the killing field. It this trip it made me realize how lucky I am living in the peaceful world. In the Cambodia these kinds of torture and execution centers of cultural commodities are being consumed and produced in their country, mostly it is visited by foreign tourist for sightseeing or for educational purposes
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