War Museum and Killing Fields

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The man who worked at the War Musem had set off 6 land mines, had been shot 3 times with an AK47 and he had shrapnel – a ball bearing and 3 nails still under his skin. He was blind in one eye, and he expected to be blind in the other within months, following an unsuccessful operation.

When he is blind, he will no longer be able to work.

Both of his parents and his brother were killed under the Khmer Rouge, his sister was killed by a land mine. His wife was killed by a land mine – 1 year and 11 weeks ago. He became anxious about the volume of his words when he became passionate and bitter and angry with the Government.

When we had money out for the donation box, he told us that the donations placed in the box went to his boss and did not help the victims.

Next we were taken to the killing field nearby. There was a large structure with glass windows, containing bones of people killed there.