After spending a few days in Siem Reap we headed to Phnom Penh, Cambodia where we visited the Choeung Ek Killing Fields and the Tuol Sleng Museum.  The Tuol Sleng Museum was formerly a prison during the Pol Pot regime where prisoners were kept and tortured and eventually taken to the Choeung Ek killing fields where they were executed.  Rarely was it a quick and painless bullet to the head as bullets were precious.  Prisoners were often beat to death.  When we entered the killing fields we saw a giant Buddhist stupa filled with over 5000 human skulls and a ridiculous number of mass graves.

This is without a doubt one of the saddest places I have ever been….

Beds that prisoners were tied down to and tortured.

Prisoners of Tuol Sleng

Tiny prison cells