It gives us sugar. But the Khmer Rouge used the palm tree to kill children by holding their legs and smashing their heads against the base of the tree. I saw this. It's captured in my mind. I want the world to see this and to think about the spirit of a woman already dead who wanted to beg the killer to spare the life of this child.
Children are as innocent and new as white paper.
They killed children with bayonets. The mother screams in terror. The statues and the monastery were once symbols of religion and education, all good things. Now the monastery is a place where people are tortured.