The Killing Fields
A journey to black. Together with Cheday and her friends we visit the places of Cambodia’s darkest hours: the Killing Fields and the S 21. As our friends tell us later they all have lost family members to the violent Khmer Rouge regime. As the Regime enslaved practically the whole country there is almost no family without losses.
The four-year period saw the death of approximately 2 million Cambodians through the combined result of political executions, starvation, and forced labor. Due to the large numbers, the deaths during the rule of the Khmer Rouge are often considered a genocide, and commonly known as the Cambodian Holocaust or Cambodian Genocide.
Victims teeth get washed up after rain season in a mass grave of 400 people.
Torture room in the S 21;A former primary school that was transformed into a security-prison in the Khmer Rouge period.
Wall in Security Prison 21 (S21)
30 years after: Butterflies dancing on the grass that covers a mass grave of 200 people.
Exchanging stories.
