deeply affected by these images. We walked around in complete silence as there are no words possible to describe the way this place may makes you feel. It is haunted by the ghosts of thousands of innocent victims.

What did become blatantly obvious was the lack of international help for the victims of this genocide. Its appals us both to the core that the so called ‘civilised’ world did nothing to help, instead of rushing to the aid of these people who had no voice, the international community just washed their hands of the whole affair. It is disgusting and shameful that the nations of the world did not to come to the aid of people who really could have done with some basic help and support. I wonder if the international community would have come running to their aid if there had been vast stocks of oil deposits within their countryside? The answer is clearly of course they would. It was the

Vietnamese Army which came to the aid of this sorry nation, a country that had had its fair share of trouble over the past few years - utterly astonishing. The Vietnamese was seen by the Western world as another bunch of communists and I suppose the western world took the view that at least the Khmer Rouge only killed their own so didn’t really pose much of a threat to the western world. After the Vietnamese liberation the British, US and Thai governments refused to recognise the Vietnamese backed government and went ahead and trained the Khmer Rouge army providing money, arms and the rest of the paraphernalia needed to keep such evil forces in power. The Khmer Rouge was even given a seat in the United Nations, this is what galls me the most, how on earth does that, or is that allowed to happen? The current Prime Minister of Cambodia is former Khmer Rouge and only 2 people are in prison for crimes against humanity, this is unconceivable to me. I always thought that there was an international war crimes