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I took this video a few hours ago in the Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh.

This is one of the hundreds of prisons of the regime that killed about 3 million innocent people out of the country’s population of 8 in the second half of the 1970s.
In these prisons people (including infants) were tortured and then killed, or only passed through before execution.

Pol Pot’s communist regime was one of the bloodiest in history, founded on positions so violent as to be absurd. Too little is known about it in Western countries. Many of the torturers went from being executioners to victims.

Not only genocide museum

The visit to the genocide museum in Phnom Penh was undoubtedly the most moving moment of the entire trip. In fact, I wanted to come here primarily to see evidence of one of the greatest tragedies of the last century and about which little is known by us. But in fact Cambodia’s capital is interesting for something else as well.

For those who want to learn more I recommend the beautiful film by Angelina Jolie director first they killed my father.

It is based on the novel by sopŕavvisuta, Loung Ung.

Featured photos of a torture cell. These were larger because space was needed, both for activities and for the torturers.

More videos from the trip to Laos and Cambodia.

Arrived in Laos, live on travel

Visit to a Buddhist temple, live on travel

River excursion in Laos, live on travel

Hot air balloon in Laos, live on travel

Home live on travel

Finally in the following link are the articles about this trip that I wrote from the comfort of home: Trip to Laos and Cambodia with inadequate guidebook

And particularly in this I talk about my days in Cambodia: Why go to Phnom Penh ? The Auschwitz of Asia

Trips taken, travel stories divided by continent

Countries visited in my travel stories

Anecdotes, divided by type in travel narratives

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Fabio Viroli

Ho sempre avuto tante passioni, ma da sempre più o meno latenti, le principali sono viaggiare e scrivere. Tra le altre cose ho una laurea in psicologia; ho fatto per più di 30 anni l’allenatore di basket; leggo tanti libri; sono stato molto appassionato di sport e di musica rock; e faccio improvvisazione teatrale. IL mio primo romanzo, che non parla di viaggi, si chiama LE TUE GAMBE SONO BELLE COME LE TAGLIATELLE

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