Choeung Ek
by Don Mercer
Title
Choeung Ek
Artist
Don Mercer
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Photograph - Photograph
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On my return to Cambodia in March 1999, the first of my wartime unit to do so, I visited Choeung Ek, the memorial to the "Killing Fields." This was the period from 1975-79 during which the Cambodian people suffered under the ruthless reign of Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge. The area surrounding this monument, which is also marked by a Buddhist stupa, contains mass graves of thousands killed by the Khmer Rouge. In the partially glassed sides of this memorial, more than 5,000 human skulls reside, as testimony to the gruesome atrocities that occurred not only at this site, but throughout most of Cambodia during that period. Choeung Ek is located approximately fifteen miles south of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh.
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