Choeung Ek

Genocidal Museum, Choeung Ek, is about 17km south of Phnom Penh. It is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields. During the Khmer Rouge regime between 1975 and 1979, about 17,000 people were unjustly executed including women and children.

Mass graves in the site contain 8,895 bodies which were unearthed after the decline of the Khmer Rouge regime. Most of the deaths were former prisoners in the Tuol Sleng prison (S.21). Nowadys in the centre of the site, a stupa was built in concrete and acrylic glass to store more than 5,000 victims’ skeletons.

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Place of Interests:

• Wat Phnom
• The Royal Palace
• Silver Pagoda
• National Museum
• Russian Market
• Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
• Choeung Ek Genocide Museum
• Udong City
• Koh Dach-Prek Anhchanh village