12 December 2016

The Killing Fields, Cambodia

A visit to the capital is incomplete without paying respects to the 2mm victims of torture, starvation, and genocide, nearly 25% of its then population, led by the brutal Pol Pot regime in the "killing fields" 1975-'79. Mass graves are still being unearthed at the site of the stirring Choeung Ek Memorial where Buddhist monks across the provinces gathered to chant prayers.