А в памяти еще свежо... And it's still fresh in my mind...

Rating 7110

The temple itself is interesting to see, to notice the difference in Buddhism in different countries. The Khmer temple is not at all similar, for example, to the Thai one. It is less pompous and is fully decorated with bright and large paintings that tell about the life of the Buddha. To be honest, it feels like it's even a little empty. But what stuck in my memory here is not a temple at all. After all, the temple was built in memory of the victims of the genocide, the victims of the bloody regime of the Khmer Rouge. When a person who is used to living in a peaceful country, where his rights are almost never violated, where he has rights at all, where he has his own home, job, salary, medical care. insurance and other benefits of civilization, hears about some kind of bloody regime there, it does not particularly touch him. It is understandable. For us, these are just unpleasant words. But having been in Cambodia, seeing such a "edification to posterity" as in this temple...
In the middle of the territory of the temple there is a huge glass box filled with the remains of the victims of the genocide. The heart aches from such sights. After this temple, I began to pay attention with what pain, fear and hatred the Khmers speak about the Khmer Rouge and their bloody regime. After all, all these events took place quite recently and are still fresh in memory.