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Boeung Choeung Ek, This were the execution grounds for the Khmer Rouge, who are believed to have brought the prisoners out from Tuol Sleng S-21 in Phnom Penh. Total numbers of people were killed here vary between 17,000- 20,000 of men, women and children, many of them found bludgeoned to death for saving the cost of a bullet.
In 1980, the remains of 8985 people, many blindfolded and hands tied were found in mass graves.
More than 8000 of these skulls sorted by age and sex are arranged in tiers and visible behind the glass sides of the memorial stupa, Boeung Choeung Ek. The white-marbled monument is a towering 17 stories high, as a reminder that the Khmer Rouge took over on April 17 1975. The site of a former orchard and mass grave of victims of the Khmer Rouge killed between the year 1975 and 1979 approximately 17 km south west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, it is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields where the Khmer Rouge regime executed over one million people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former political prisoners who were kept by the Khmer Rouge in their Tuol Sleng detention center.
Tourists are encouraged by the Cambodian government to visit Choeung Ek. Apart from the stupa, there are pits from which the bodies were exhumed. Human bones still litter the site.
