Kevin Sites reports from Cambodia's S-21 Prison

The last time I posted about Kevin Sites he was on the Thai-Myanmar border at the Mae Sot clinic. True to form, he has turned in another powerful piece on the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh Cambodia. The prison (a former school) was used by the Khmer Rouge to torture those they felt were enemies of the KR's twisted agenda.

From Kevin's Article:

"Visitors walking through the hallways of this former high school turned prison must confront the pain, uncertainty and fear of thousands of victims looking back at them from the black and white photographs taken by prison guards.

It was a methodical process. The victims were positioned in a specially constructed chair with a boom arm that steadied their heads before the photograph was taken.

Detailed histories were written for each prisoner, covering their lives from childhood up until their arrest. They were stripped of all their possessions and clothes, leaving them with only their underwear.

Some were chained to the floor in tiny individual cells, forced to defecate in ammunition cans. Others were held in groups in open classrooms with one or both legs shackled to larger iron bars on the floor, similar to the method used to immobilize captives on slave ships sailing to the Americas from Africa."

Read the rest here: http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs7459