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The Faces Behind the Skulls

It is difficult to describe the overwhelming sense of tragedy and shock when you see the thousands of mugshots of Cambodian victims of genocide, at the S-21 Prison Museum. Unlike the Nazis, who managed to destroy much of their evidence, the Khmer Rouge left behind a wealth of confessions and paperwork concerning their brutal brand of slaughter. So many victims were young, and all were innocent. The S-21 prison is shocking, or the more so as these atrocities took place 30 years after the holocaust, when the world said it would not allow it to happen again. It did.