killing fields

昨日はたった40年前(1975-79)にポルポト政権下のカンボジアで起きた悲惨な歴史を保管した場所へ行ってきました。

本当はカンボジアに来るつもりもなかったのですが、この話を知り合った人に聞いたり、世界史でこれらを少し習っていたことと、辛いことだけど見に行く価値はあるし見に行かなければと思ったからです。

まず一つ目、キリングフィールドと言われている映画化もされた場所。ここでは罪のない人々が連れてこられて殺されました。罪のないとは例えば、教養のある人。教養がある人はポルポトの描く世界に悪影響を与えるという理由で。メガネをかけているだけで殺された人も大勢います。また復讐を恐れたポルポトはその親族まで殺しました。銃弾がもったいないと鈍器で何度も殴られ、痙攣したのち皆亡くなったと。また赤ちゃんと一緒のお母さんは身ぐるみ剥がされ殺されたり時にはレイプされ殺されました。赤ちゃんはどうなったと思いますか？お母さんの目の前で木に叩きつけられ殺されたらしいです。第一発見者は木に脳みそや骨の一部が付着していたと話しています。

草が生い茂った場所には多くの凸凹した場所が。そこには死体が埋まっていたと言います。今でも骨や衣類が雨の後土の中から出てくると言います。

これらを見て思ったことは歴史はどうしても繰り返されるのだろうかと。大量虐殺は資料が残っていないだけで昔にもあったでしょうし、ドイツでもありましたよね？同じ人間、カンボジアでは同じ国の人をしかも何の罪もない人々を。多くの人と同様僕も言葉が出ませんでした。どうかこれら資料館が今後に起こらないシンボルとなって欲しいです。

今回載せる写真はちょっとショッキングだけど載せます。

Yesterday, I visited the place where is famous called “killing fields”. It was just 40 years ago under Khmer Rouge , a lot of people were killed even they were totally innocent. 

At first I wasn’t planning to come to Cambodia but I hard about this from people I met and I remember that I studied little bit when I was student and I knew it would be hard but they made me come there.

in the morning, I went to “killing fields” . 

I was listening to the audio and it told me a lot of information. For example, people who were innocent like teachers, doctors, uni students whoever had knowledge or just looked smart like wearing glasses. Pol Pot was scared of those people and killed. Most of them were killed by not guns. Coz there were not so many guns and expensive at that time. So by wood sticks , iron sticks , whatever they were hard. They were hit until died. Not only them but also their whole family in order to stop hating and revenging Pol Pot. That’s why he killed baby as well and mother. Do u know how they were killed?  Baby were killed in front of mothers grabbed legs and hit the big tree. This tree is called “death tree” when the first person found that tree, it still had their brains , borne, and much blood. Mothers sometimes were killed after raiped.  

I found there were a lot of hills , not hills actually but I don’t know how to call. Anyway they were used as tomb. They dig the big hole sometimes under 5 meters and put body in them and covered. Even now bones and teeth or clothes come out from them. 

What i felt after this tour, I thought that history repeats over and over like we don’t know exactly but long time ago around the world, same things happened. We can read old books. However, Cambodia government and some countries built this historical monument and we can visit and know what happened. We have to learn from that and make this never happen from now on.

picturs I will post today is gonna be shocking so be careful.

Skulls of people who were killed

 

Killing field

There were 40 bodys in this grave 

Clothes people wore

Killing tree

Monument