s-21 and the killing fields

My last day in Phnom Penh was spent looking around S-21 and The Killing Fields. S-21 used to be a school and during the 1970's the khmer rouge turned it into a prison and torture chamber and now its a genocide mueseum. There were stories and torture equipment in the old cells and mugshots of all the prisoners who were kept there (and later murdered) aswell as photos of dead people who had been killed in the prison. Prisoners were then taken to the killing fields, where they were murdered by being hit over the head because bullets were too precious. 3 million people were murdered and put into mass graves - with the killing fields being one of the largest mass grave sites. Theres a temple built there now filled with skulls taken from the graves and as you walk around the area there's still bits of bones and cl0thing poking out of the ground. It was a really really horrible day but I learned alot and understand the Cambodian people alot more now. The next day I left for the south coast where I stayed right on the beach for free. Its low season so there's alot of free accomodation at the beaches (and 50cent handles of beer), and The Frog Shack where I stayed was the safest place to be on the beach because there were guys camped out in hammocks outside the rooms all night keeping watch (even though one night I saw a khmer guy climbing over the wall into the room of the barowner to steal stuff - because the walls werent high enough to reach the ceiling) and during the day a crazy guy called Dune would blow a whistle whenever gangs of theives would come near us on the beach. One night a group of us ventured afew hundered metres down the beach to go to a different bar and it was so scary - twice groups of guys started to circle around us from out of the shadows but as soon as we blew the whistle they ran off, and there were also murders and robberies happening down the beach quite often. So, Cambodia really isn't the safest place and I think landmines are the least of my worries, but the Khmer people are really great and are always looking out for us to make sure we're okay and it's really cool to travel through a country that is still real and not yet destroyed by tourism.