Royal Palace, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh - July 2010
Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh - July 2010
On our way in tuk tuk to the killing fields
Munks in a hurry
The streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Transportation of pigs
Choeung Ek Genocidal Center - Killing Fields, Phnom Penh - July 2010
Skulls in the stupa. Most of those people would probably have been alive today being 50 years and over old - except for the thousands of children - the would have been in their 30s and up.
If a mother or a father was an intellectual or just someone wearing glasses the whole family was killed - including the children so the family members would take any revenge.
Skulls in the stupa
Victims Clothes
About 2 million people was killed during the Khemere Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979
Foot chain
129 mass graves - 43 untouched - 8985 bodies were exhumed in 1980. The area is the size of a football court.
Women and children
After rain falls bones and clothes show up on the ground.
Mass grave of 161 victims who had their heads cut off - a lot of them were children
The biggest mass grave at Choeung Ek, 450 victims
The biggest mass grave at Choeung Ek
The stupa raised to honor the victims
The sharp edges was used for cutting the throat off the victims