The Killing Fields

 Without the use of high-tech means of mass destruction, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge leadership were able to kill 1.7 million Cambodians and lay waste to the country. We confronted Cambodia’s tragic past on a guided tour of the Tuol Sleng genocide Museum, a former school which served as a Khmer Rouge torture centre. It’s estimated that more than 20,000 people were held and tortured here. We ended with a visit to the Choeung Ek Memorial, where a stupa made up of some 8,000 human skulls marks the site of the infamous Killing Fields of Pol Pot. This was the execution ground for the torture victums of Tuol Sleng and standing in this peaceful setting it’s almost unthinkable to imagine that to date nearly 9,000 corpses have been exhumed from this area.

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