We spent a couple of hours this afternoon at a school which the Khmer Rouge converted into a prison/torture facility. The horror of such a place is obvious, but there were two striking things in particular from the displays: (i) most of the inmates (all but 7 of the 15,000 were killed) seemed to have been Khmer Rouge members who had become the subject of suspicion; and (ii) no-one appears to have taken responsibility for the atrocities - the guys at the top claim not to have known what the guys on the ground were doing and the guys on the ground say they were young and impressionable and only following orders (oh, and they're very keen that the top brass pay for their crimes). They've got a war crimes-style tribunal set up, so I guess there's not much incentive to clear the air while that threat is live. Tomorrow we're off to the Killing Fields.
As we were wondering around, Hillary Clinton's entourage were planning the photo ops on her upcoming visit - all very West Wing.
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