Choeung Ek
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Buddhist stupa | |
Height | 62 m (203 ft) |
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Beginning date | 1988 |
Choeung Ek (
It is the best-known of the approximately 300 Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime collectively executed over one million[2] people as part of their Cambodian genocide between 1975 and 1979.
Description
Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former political prisoners who the Khmer Rouge kept in their Tuol Sleng detention center and in other Cambodian detention centers.
Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a
Tourists are encouraged by the Cambodian government to visit Choeung Ek. Apart from the stupa, there are pits from which the bodies were exhumed. Human bones still litter the site.
On May 3, 2005, the Municipality of Phnom Penh announced that they had entered into a 30-year agreement with JC Royal Co. to develop the memorial at Choeung Ek.[3] As part of the agreement, they are not to disturb the remains still present in the field.
In popular culture
- The film The Killing Fields is a dramatised portrayal of events like those that took place at Choeung Ek.
References
- ^ "Property Tax Map". City of Phnom Penh. Retrieved 2020-05-06. - Map of Dangkor Section - Compare map to Google Maps view of Dangkor District.
- ^ Sharp, Bruce (April 1, 2005). "Counting Hell: The Death Toll of the Khmer Rouge Regime in Cambodia". Retrieved July 5, 2006.
- ^ Doyle, Kevin (2005-04-11). "The Revenue Fields". Time. Archived from the original on July 12, 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
External links
- Genocide portal
- Media related to Choeung Ek at Wikimedia Commons