Inside S-21 Prison & the Cambodia Killing Fields *WARNING*
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- In today's video we're entering the S-21 Prison & visiting the Cambodia Killing Fields. This is a horrifying & tragic part of Cambodia's history, but it is a story that has to be told. Viewer Discretion Advised.
Located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, S-21 was once a high school that was turned into a prison by the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s. Over the course of just four years, an estimated 20,000 people were tortured and executed here.
The video takes us through the haunting and somber halls of the prison, now a genocide museum, where we see the torture chambers, the tiny cells, and the gruesome images and stories of the prisoners who were brought here. We hear from survivors who were lucky enough to escape and from the family members of those who didn't, as they share their harrowing experiences of what happened at S-21.
But the horror didn't end there. The Killing Fields, located just outside of Phnom Penh, were the sites where the prisoners from S-21 were taken to be executed and buried in mass graves. Over one million people were killed during the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror, and many of them ended up in the Killing Fields.
The video takes us through the peaceful and serene fields, now a memorial to the victims, where we see the mass graves, the bones and clothing of those who were killed, and the memorials that have been built to honor their memory.
By the end of the video, we are left with a deep sense of sorrow and grief for the lives lost at S-21 and the Killing Fields of Cambodia, but also a sense of hope that we can learn from these atrocities and work towards a future where such crimes against humanity are never repeated.
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00:00 Intro
00:32 Stop #1: S-21 Prison
03:39 Getting To The Killing Fields
04:04 Stop #2: Choeung Ek Genocidal Center
06:02 Why We Filmed This
The Killing Fields & the S-21 Prison are without question some of the most disturbing & haunting places we've ever visited. But we felt very strongly that in order to understand the Cambodia we see today, we had to first gain an understanding of this part of their history. We had to highlight this extraordinarily dark moment, to fully appreciate how far the people & country have come. This day was difficult, but felt absolutely necessary. Thank you so much for watching❤
You guys captured my same sort of reaction the first time I heard/read about the Khmer Rouge and that 1975-1979 time period (although crimes against humanity continued after that point): Why wasn't I taught about this in school??
I had great history teachers throughout my education, in the 90's, and yet I learned nearly nothing about these atrocities until I was an adult.
Thanks for sharing this video- it needs to be shared.
I seriously couldn’t agree with you more. It’s something that just floored us the more we learned about it. Even our parents generation who grew up during that period didn’t know much about it at all. It’s a horrible part of history but the story has to be told. That’s ultimately why we ended up making this video. We really appreciate your kind words and for taking the time to watch!!
Thank you for showing us this. Everyone should learn about it because if we don’t learn from our history we’re doomed to repeat it.
We couldn't agree more!!! It was a very difficult day, & some parts were EXTREMELY hard to digest. We just couldn't gloss over the topic at the end of the day, which is why we made the video. It's a lot like our Auschwitz video. There can never be too many videos on topics like this. Thank you so much for watching our video & supporting us Brittany❤️
I ve Been there twice, and i couldn t stop crying watching this video..there is so much pain in those places that you can still feel it..
Great video guys ❤
Appreciate you watching. It is an important part of Cambodia's history and although it is dark, we feel it is important to remember. 🤍 🇰🇭
Thank you for sharing this video with us. Outside of extremely heartbreaking, there are no words.
Thank you so much Jan!! We just couldn't visit & not talk about the topic. It's hard to wrap your mind around, but it shows how far Cambodian people have come. We can't wait for you to see our next video!!!
Thank you for sharing this with us as heavy as it would have been to do, we all need to know that these dark times did exist in not so distant history. 😢
That's exactly why we made the video. It's short & we'll have a far more upbeat video in a couple of days, but it just felt like a story we had to tell. Growing up this topic wasn't really taught to us in school, so a lot of the details & information was fresh. It's a hard part of Cambodian history, but man does it show how far they've come. Thank you so much for taking the time to watch our video Annette❤️
These stops are truly painful and heartbreaking...cant help crying while I go each room of S21 and totally became so depressed after visiiting Choeung Ek.
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But yeah, this part of Cambodia's story should be known to the world...
The Khmer Rouge genocide must never be forgotten, thank you for making this Vlog.
We completely agree. Thank you so much for watching❤️❤️
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A very sad sight indeed! 😥It reminds us of the horror the Nazis inflicted to millions or people in Europe. How can any person do this to innocent civilians? When we see this, we have to realize what a great life most of us have and cherish every moment!
It's such a sad story, but one that we honestly didn't understand the gravity of until we visited. We just felt like we had to make a video on it, even though it's SO different from what we normally do. Thank you so much for watching Eddy, & we can't wait for you to see our Phnom Penh video!!!
Huh? In war its kill or be killed and the Jewish people refused to fight.
Thanks for sharing such an important event of world history. It’s disappointing that we don’t learn about this genocide in American school/ education especially when the US did play a role in it. It’s dropping of bombs on innocent Cambodians during the Vietnam war and not providing aide thereafter influenced Pol Pot to want to gain control of the country. And the US just let him because it was no longer American business after indiscriminately dropping bombs on the Cambodian people for the sake of pushing out Vietnam soldiers. So of course we aren’t going to learn about another flaw for the American government in its own schools. I can only hope that more people will come to know the history 🇰🇭
We couldn't agree more. It was a very difficult day of filming, & some parts were hard to film. We just felt like we couldn't gloss over the topic at the end of the day, which is why we made the video. It's similar to why we filmed our Auschwitz video. There can never be too many videos on topics like this so we never forget and spread awareness to some who may not know.
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Thank you so much for watching!!
your vlog is like thirteen in a dozen..
It’s like living in a hell during polpot regime millions of Cambodian were killed and all of those people are mostly innocent, it’s nearly 45 years now that the Khmer Rouge had failed and it also the day for Cambodian rebuild there new life again. My grandfather and my uncle were killed and other of my family members had survived the darkness terrible and brutal death and there is nothing left behind than a sad tragic story.
His goal still makes no sense, he wanted his country to go back to the stone age? even with no medical doctors whats the point in that.
Yeah, Very dark moment for Cambodia, living in hell and not just 1.7 m but it almost 3m people were killed in nearly 4years. the fear still remain in Cambodian people.
It’s something that we honestly struggled to wrap our minds around. It’s such a dark part of history, but something we felt we had to show people. We wanted to do anything that we could do to help make sure it isn’t forgotten. Thank you so much for taking the time to watch our video❤️
@@ProbablyLostcambodia was a peaceful and rich country before Pol Pot happened. A lot of educated people were killed, and during pol pot our GDP economy is 0. So we started from 0 😢