Choeung Ek

Choeung Ek (Khmer: ជើងឯក, Khmer: [cəːŋ ʔaek]) is the site of a former orchard and mass grave of victims of the Khmer Rouge – killed between 1975 and 1979 – in Dangkao Section, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, about south of the Phnom Penh city centre. 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. Description Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rou…