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Killing Fields

Chamkar Krauch
30 burial pits                450 bodies

Me Chbar 
1 prison burial pit         300 bodies

Veal Batt Kang
a rice field                     500 bodies

Tuol Roung Chrey
1 mass grave                 400 bodies

Banteay O Ta Krey
35 burial pits                 4000 bodies

Phlauv Meas
30 burial pits                 200-250 bodies

Wat Samdech Muny 
6 mass graves                5-6000 bodies

Chumnik
5-6 prison burial pits     100 bodies

La-ang Kirirom
5 mass graves                15,700 bodies

etcetera

The Documentation Centre of Cambodia and Yale University’s Cambodia Genocide Programme have carried out a comprehensive survey of the 20,000 ‘killing fields’, mass graves and smaller burial sites scattered across the country, including estimates of the number of victims. This has yielded an overwhelming amount of data. The estimated total number of people murdered during the Khmer Rouge’s four-year regime is approximately 2 million, out of a population of 8 million.

Photo of the week: skulls of genocide victims, Memorial Stupa at the killing field of Choeung Ek, Cambodia, 2000