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The Killing Fields

06 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by blade3colorado in Miscellaneous Travel

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Cambodia, Choeung Ek, Khmer Rouge, killing fields, Phnom Penh, Pol Pot, Tuol Sleng

Memorial stupa filled with the skulls of the victims at the killing field of Choeung Ek.

Memorial stupa filled with the skulls of the victims at the killing field of Choeung Ek.

The term “killing fields” refers to a number of sites in Cambodia, where large numbers of people were tortured, killed and then buried by the Communist Khmer Rouge regime. I visited one such killing field named Choeung Ek in Phnom Penh. Cambodian journalist, Dith Pran, coined the term “killing fields.” The Khmer Rouge were in power from 1975 to 1979, immediately following the Cambodian civil war (1970-1975). Pol Pot, sometimes referred to as “Cambodia’s Hitler” was responsible for this mass genocide. However, he was never brought to justice – either dying from heart failure or suicide, i.e., no one knows for sure because he was cremated before an autopsy could be performed.

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