Genocide & A Holiday in Cambodia
Lee LeFever has a couple of chilling posts on his visit to Phnom Penh, Cambodia;
Genocide memorials are not a typical holiday destination but I can understand why Lee needed to see them. The tragedy of the Killing Fields, captured in Roland Joffe’s movie, still seems surreal. How could it happen again, and again…
“What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (German Philosopher and Inventor, 1770-1831)
Mike Oldfield's theme from The Killing Fields ran thru my mind while reading it.
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