Cambodia: The Killing Tree, the tree against which Khmer Rouge murdered children by holding their feet and bashing their heads against its trunk, Choeung Ek Genocidal Center

About 12 km (7½ miles) south of Phnom Penh lie the infamous Killing Fields of Choeung Ek. Here victims of the Khmer Rouge, including many from Tuol Sleng, were taken for execution and burial in mass graves. Many of these have now been exhumed, and a stupa-shaped mausoleum has been erected to their memory.

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Oliver Hargreave

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Pictures From Asia

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DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA