explained to us the horrific ways in which the victims were tortured and killed. There is a single tree which stands next to one of the graves which has a plaque explaining how this tree was used to kill babies. The Khmer Rouge comrades just used to swing the babies by the feet against the tree or throw them up into the air then bayonet them to death. It is incomprehensible to imagine what depths of depravity elements of the human race can stoop too. The rest of the area is equally as moving and disturbing, it was an extremely sobering experience and we still had the visit to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum which was next on our list.

We arrived at the Genocide Museum which is known in Cambodia as S-21 Prison. The building was originally built as a high school but the Khmer Rouge converted it into a prison. The prison was used for interrogation and extermination of so called anti communist elements. The

prisons outer walls gave a slight indication of what horrors of history would be revealed inside. The prison has been left virtually untouched and has been open since 1980. I cannot express the horrific nature of the place, if walls could talk, what those walls have witnessed is beyond any normal persons comprehension. The amount of human cruelty and suffering that has gone on within that former school leaves you with a multitude of emotions that is hard to comprehend. According to Khmer Rouge reports found in the archives the number of prisoners from 1975 - 1979 totalled 10,499 and this list does not include the number of children killed there, which was estimated at 2000. There are 4 blocks of buildings each 3 stories high. Some of the rooms are left as interrogation rooms, some just bare and some house endless corridors of photographs of the victims. To walk through these rooms and see the desperation in the peoples eyes just brings tears into your own eyes, you would be completely inhuman to not be