bones beneath killing tree, choeung ek memorial

PRESENTATION OF THE EXTERMINATION CAMP CHCEUNG EK

THE EXTERMINATION CAMP CNIEUNG EK 15 ABOUT 156km from PHNOM PENH IN THE SOUTH - WEST. IT IMPLICATED IM THE ORGANISATION OF THE BIGGEST SECURITY CENTRE OF KAMPUCHEA DEMOCRATIC IN POL POT REGIME UNDER THE NAME S.21. S21 HAD ITS HEADQUARTER AT TUOL SLENG PRISION. AILL THE VICTIMS (PEASANTS WORKERS,INTELLECTUALS MINISTERS,KHMER DIPLOMATS, FOREIGNERS, WOMEN, CHILDREN..) DETAINED AND TORTURED DURING INTERROGATING AT TUOL SLENG WERE LATER SENT TO CHIEUNG EK FOR LIQUIDATION. A LOT OF POPULATION AND POL POT SOLDIERS OF THE EASTERN ZONE WERE ALSO SENT THERE SINCE MAY 1378 TOWARDS THE END OF 1980,86 OUT 129 MASS GRAVES WERE UNEARTHED IN THIS EXTERMINATION CAMP AND 8985 CORPESES WERE FOUND. A STUPA HAS BEEN ERECTED TO PRESERVE THEIR REMAINS AND ALSO TO COMMEMORATE THE DEATH OF THE KAMPUCHEA PEOPLE UNDER POL POT REGIME .