by Kay McMahon © 2011
For all its beauty, this stupa is a memorial to an devastatingly tragic event in Cambodia’s recent past – it’s the centrepiece of the Choeung Ek Genocide Center, a museum set up to document and preserve the memory of the mass murder of over three million Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975-79. About 20,000 men, women and children died horribly at Choeung Ek – the stupa contains the skulls of about 8,000 of them as testimony to the brutality that was unleashed on Cambodia’s people during those years.
You can read more about the Choeung Ek killing field here:
The Killing Fields
Kay has been an expat for nearly 30 years. She set up the British Expat website back in early 2000, whilst living in London and missing the expat life. These days she spends much of her time lugging computers and cameras around the world. (Dave gets to deal with all the really heavy stuff.)
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