Killing fields of Choeung Ek

(Killing Fields of Choeung Ek; admission incl audio tour US$5; 7:30am-5:30pm) Between 1975 and 1978 about 17,000 men, women, children and infants who has been detained and tortured at S-21 were transported to the extermination camp of Choeung Ek. They were often bludgeoned to death to avoid wasting precious bullets.
     The remains of 8985 people , many of whom were  bound and blindfolded, were exhumed in 1980 from mass graves in this one-time longan
orchard; 43 of the 129 communal graves here have been left untouched Fragments of human bone and bits of cloth are scattered around the
disinterred pits. More than 8000 skulls, arranged by sex and age, are visible behind the clear glass panels of the Memorial Stupa, which was erected in 1988. It is a peaceful place today, masking the horrors that unfolded here less than three decades ago.
      Admission to the killing Fields includes an excellent audio tour, available in several languages. Introduced in 2011, the tour includes stories by those who survived the Khmer Rouge , plus a chilling account by Choeung Ek guard and executioner Him Huy about some of the techniques they used to kill innocent prisoners and defenceless women and children.

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