Day Off

Day Off: Day 37 – March 14^th

This was our day off from visiting the temples.

The schedule is:

Leisurely breakfast.

Cambodian War Museum.

Post Office.

Lunch.

Swimming Pool with game of catch

Write blogs and emails and home schooling and diaries. I even did some work.

Circus

Supper

Pool (the other kind)

Watch documentary on Angkor Wat.

We did it – just. We finished the documentary at 10pm with Jo fast asleep. A full day. 

Temples tomorrow.

Note:

Military technology is evil.  It feeds on itself and causes ever worse suffering. We saw an acre of obsolete military hardware supplied by the USSR, China and USA for nefarious political aims and causing unimaginable suffering. It brought it home – here where the guides were once soldiers shooting each other. And land mines are the worst – cynically honed in laboratories to cause the worst non-fatal injuries so as to have the maximum drain on the enemy’s medical and psychological resources and laid to be hard to detect without regard to the future use of the land.  A land mine – unlike other weapons - cannot be recalled.

As one Khmer Rouge general put it, a land-mine is a perfect soldier: "Ever courageous, never sleeps, never misses."

None of this stuff should happen it defines evil in the world and the USA dropped more explosives on Cambodia (a neutral country) from 1969 to 1973 than were dropped by the allies in the whole of the second world war. And then cravenly left Cambodia to its own devices for the next decade before finally settling on the side of the Khmer Rouge in the 80s and 90s.

So. 

I read in the Phnom Penh Post today that two boys were killed yesterday in a village by an unexploded tank mine laid 30 years ago. it happens all the time.

Here is a video of Taran having his fortune told by a soldier.