Warning: contains 'makes me feel sick' content. Last year at about this time, Elenka and I visited the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. Tuol Sleng was once the main interrogation and torture centre of the Khmer Rouge, under the leadership of the notorious Pol Pot. We're back in Cambodia and have taken the next step, a visit to the killing fields. During the early to mid-70s there were many killing fields in Cambodia, where an estimated ...

 At first look, aside from the 14 coffins that lie in its courtyard, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum could still pass for the Phnom Penh high school it once was. In the mid 70s the Khmer Rouge took it over and turned the school into a vicious interrogation centre. Water boarding, whipping, electric shock treatments (with pain the only purpose), coffin drowning, and one that really makes me cringe: hanging prisoners from a cross-beam by their hands which were tied beh...