The Killing Fields in Cambodia are an echo of the heinous atrocity that occurred in 1975-1979 during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. According to various estimates, over these several years, from one and a half to 3 million people were brutally killed and buried here, out of a total population of 7 million.
The political crime legal process began with a person receiving a warning from Angkar, the de facto government of Cambodia. Those who received more than two warnings were sent for a kind of "retraining", which meant almost certain death. Usually "retraining" were forced to confess to "pre-revolutionary way of life and crimes" (which usually included either entrepreneurial activity or connections with foreigners), claiming that Angkar would forgive them and "start from scratch." The blank slate was that the confessed one was exiled to Tuol Sleng prison for torture and subsequent execution.
The victims were tortured with various tortures - pulling out nails, being forced to absorb excrement and urine, hanging and many others. When it came to execution, the unfortunates were beaten with hammers, axes, shovels or sharpened bamboo sticks, as the decree was in force on the economy of ammunition. These facts are indicated not only by the testimony of the survivors, but also by the analysis of the remains during the exhumation.
No humanity and no justice - they killed all the unwanted. Only suspicion was enough to take a person's life. The Vietnamese and Cham were destroyed on an ethnic basis, Christians and Buddhist monks on a religious basis. Intellectuals and professionals in their field were also considered a threat and doomed to "retraining".
The most famous killing field is Choeng Ek. Today there is a memorial with a Buddhist temple in memory of the victims of terror. The temple has double acrylic sheer walls that are filled with over 5,000 human skulls.
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The genocide in Cambodia is dedicated to the film "Killing Fields", which tells about the plight of the Cambodian journalist Dita Pran, who ended up in a concentration camp and managed to escape from there.
The death fields have an extremely negative energy and are not recommended for visiting by children, pregnant women and people with poor health. The land saturated with blood and suffering does not carry anything good in itself. Many cases of deterioration of health after a long stay in such unfortunate places have been recorded.