The Killing Fields Photo Gallery by lcurran at pbase.com

The Killing Fields

Scattered throughout Cambodia were various killing fields where many of the population were taken to be eliminated. This included men, women and children of all ages.
Because of the lack of ammunition, the principal method of execution was by a blow on the side of the head by whatever means. The bodies were dumped into open pits (the word graves would be honouring the process too much) and then covered over.
By some measures, the genocide in Cambodia was the worst in human history. Never before has a regime slaughtered one-quarter of its own population. Pol Pot and his Maoist zealots proclaimed a return to “Year Zero.” Intellectuals were eliminated, religion was destroyed, currency was abolished, the country was cut off from the outside world and city dwellers were force marched into the countryside to be slave labourers in the fields, where countless numbers died of starvation and overwork.

Chuenngek Genocidal Centre	Chankiri Tree	Memorial Building	Memorial Building
Memorial Building	Legacy	Legacy	Mass Grave - 166 Victims
Mass Grave	Mass Graves	The Most Tragic Thing

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