Visit the Choeung Ek Killing Fields

Over 17,000 people were executed here, with remains still being discovered decades later.

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Choeung Ek

Choeung Ek (Khmer: ជើងឯក, Cheung Êk [cəːŋ ʔaek]) is a site in Dangkao on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, that was used as a Killing Field between 1977 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge to perpetrate the Cambodian genocide.
A former orchard situated about 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of the city centre, it was attached to the Tuol Sleng detention centre. The bodies of 8,895 victims were exhumed from the site after the fall of the Rouge, who would have been executed there—typically with pickaxes to conserve bullets—before being buried in mass graves. It is the best-known of the approximately 300 Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime collectively executed over one million people as part of their Cambodian genocide between 1975 and 1979.

This description uses material from the Wikipedia article on Choeung Ek and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (view authors).