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Photo: Memorial Stupa
Located about
fourteen kilometers southwest of Phnom Penh, the
Killing Fields of Choeung Ek is one of the many
sites in Cambodia whereby a large number of
people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge
communist regime. Prisoners from the Security
Prison 21 (S21) were taken to Choeung Ek to be
executed and remains of victims were exhumed
from mass graves in 1980. To preserve
ammunition, prisoners were either killed with
sharpened bamboo sticks or just bludgeoned to
death. A memorial stupa was built here to keep
almost eight thousand skulls which can be seen
behind clear glass panels and all tourists will
taken to this attraction for a guided tour.
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