Choeung Ek is Cambodia’s preeminent renowned ‘Killing Field’, although many visitors sort out not realise with the intention of this was solely lone of the many with the intention of can be found scattered across the people. During the fleeting reign of the Khmer Rouge, it is said in surplus of 2 million Cambodians corroded, approximately killed outright, others dying from disease, famine, neglect and hurt - many of the exhausted ended up being hastily dumped in these shallow ‘killing fields’.
For the sake of historical context, and although it continues the emotional experience, a visit to Choeung Ek must be combined with a visit to Toul Sleng. Choeung Ek is located 15km south west of Phnom Penh and thousands of Toul Sleng prisoners, counting women, children, and babies were forcibly marched at this time and executed - approximately shot, many simply bludgeoned to death. Today the locate is a assemble of bulk graves and family to a monument stupa containing thousands of skulls. Equally you wander around the beautiful and peaceful setting it is trying to image and comprehend the savagery with the intention of took place at this time...
