Built on Tragedy
Built on Tragedy:
It’s not about a Monk sitting on skulls, but if that’s what you see you’re welcome to think of it that way. I’m the last person to decide what something “should” mean for another person. I just write these to describe what, exactly, it means to me.
This one means that until 1979 there was a genocide going on in Cambodia. A genocide that lead to the death of nearly 1/3 of the population. A genocide that killed innocent mothers, fathers and children. Everyone belonged to someone but Pol Pot decided that didn’t matter… it shouldn’t matter.
In fact, they came in with guns and uniforms and a promise of a better life. The Khmer Rouge regime took hold on the belief that the hill tribes of Cambodia had the right idea – non education and non-industrialized was the way to go. They believed so much in the idea of an unsophisticated life that they killed 1.4-2.2 MILLION human beings in pursuit of the “ideal” lifestyle.
