Choeung-Ek extermination field - COD: 79.07.09 - INFO
Choeung-Ek extermination field - COD: 79.07.16 - INFO
Choeung-Ek extermination field; walking on the path you trample on human bones and clothes still emerging... read more - COD: 79.07.19 - INFO
Choeung-Ek extermination field - COD: 79.07.07 - INFO
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia - COD: 72.07.07 - INFO
Cambodia - Traces of Horror
As the trial against the survived Red Khmers authors of the Cambodia genocide seemed to begin effectively in 2007, I decided to look at the traces of horror in Phnom Penh. During the time of Pol Pot/Red Khmers domination (1975-1979) Cambodia suffered a tremendous version of agrarian communism, forcing urban dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects. The combined effects of forced labour, malnutrition, poor medical care, and executions resulted in the deaths of approximately 21 percent of the Cambodian population (2.000.000 to 5.000.000 people). From 1975 to 1979, an estimated 17.000 to 20.000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng Security Prison 21 (S-21) now Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, tortured and killed here or in the killing field of Choeung Ek, now a memorial monument, marked by a Buddhist stupa filled with more than 5.000 human skulls. Apart from the stupa, there are pits from which the bodies were exhumed. Walking on the path you trample on human bones and clothes still emerging from the earth.
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