In Cambodia 1,7 million people died during the communist Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979 led by Pol Pot. Khmer Rouge organization carried out brutal executions and torture. The organization for example established Security Offices, torture centers, to all over Cambodia.

The most famous of them is the Security Office (S-21) located at the downtown of capital city Phnom Penh. Former school building was turned into jail. Now the building is a genocide museum which reminds people of today’s Cambodia and tourists from the horryfying past of Cambodia.

© May 2008

Sri Lanka’s army and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighted against each other for over 25 years (since 1983). At May 2009 the LTTE lost the war and war ended. LTTE’s goal was to gain independency to the north and east of Sri Lanka. This didn’t happen.

More than 70 000 Sri Lankan’s died and hundred thousands got displaced during the civil war. Besides war people of Sri Lanka faced suffering in the form of tsunami in December 2004.

I visited Sri Lanka in January 2005, two weeks after the tsunami. Here are some photos from the travel taken with a pocket camera.

© January 2005