Choeung Ek killing fields

Pay your respect at a historical site – the dark days of Khmer Rouge saw the killing of more than two million Cambodians, which is almost 21% of the entire population at that time. The systematic killing from 1975 to 1979, under the tyranny of Pol Pot (the communist leader of the Communist Party of Kampuchea), ensured wiping of country’s intelligentsia and intellectuals, along with political and military personnel, after the end of the civil war. The farmland of Choeung Ek, located just outside Phnom Penh, was one of the sites of mass killings. The eerie past of Cambodia’s genocide is immortalised here in the Killing fields of Choeung Ek. Visit the memorial in the centre of the field filled with the skulls recovered from the mass graves. The guide will point out that on a dry windy day or on a heavy rainy day, you still find human bones resurfacing. Walk around in silence and offer prayers to the innocent victims. It is impossible to fathom the atrocities they must have suffered.