The image above shows a stupa built in 1988 at Choeung Ek as a memorial to the innocent victims of the Khmer Rouge. This memorial contains numerous shelves of human skulls (a portion of one shelf is shown below) which were exhumed from the Killing Fields at this site.

January 31, 1996

Our journey from Choeung Ek back to Phnom Penh was one of reflection and literal silence.

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