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The killing caves of Phnom Sampeau are a Khmer Rouge (KR) execution site on Phnom Sampeau, a hill 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Battambang in western Cambodia. KR killed their victims on top of the cave at the rim of a daylight shaft or ceiling hole and threw the corpses into the cave. [ 1 ]
The Killing Fields (Khmer: វាលពិឃាត, Khmer pronunciation: [ʋiəl pikʰiət]) are sites in Cambodia where collectively more than 1.3 million people were killed and buried by the Communist Party of Kampuchea during Khmer Rouge rule from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–75).
Choeung Ek (Khmer: ជើងឯក, Cheung Êk [cəːŋ ʔaek]) is a former orchard in Dangkao, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, [1] that was used as a Killing Field between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge in perpetrating the Cambodian genocide. Situated about 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of the city centre, it was attached to the Tuol Sleng detention ...
"I was just skin and bones," said Srey Heng, who was conscripted by the Khmer Rouge into a mobile labor unit for children, and forced to dig canals. Thousands of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer ...
Places where tragedies have occurred, such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in Cambodia, draw thousands of tourists a year – Amelia Neath explores why people choose to visit these ...
On weekdays, visitors have the opportunity of viewing a 'survivor testimony' from 2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Along with the Choeung Ek Memorial (the Killing Fields), the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is included as a point of interest for those visiting Cambodia. Tuol Sleng also remains an important educational site as well as memorial for Cambodians.
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