Friendship and Sympathy
Day 10 - The Killing Fields
After surviving what must have been a horrific time at one the detention centre, people were then brought to the killing fields by the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot. The fields are so named as this is where they were killed, by various methods from nails being hammered through the top of the skull, to beheading, to being beaten to death with various farming implements. After being executed the bodies were thrown in mass graves. When exhumed tens of thousands of bodies were found.
This is the fence around one of the exhumed mass graves. People have lovingly left friendship bracelets in sympathy, support and remembrance of those who suffered such an awful regime.
Friendship and Sympathy
Day 10 - The Killing Fields
After surviving what must have been a horrific time at one the detention centre, people were then brought to the killing fields by the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot. The fields are so named as this is where they were killed, by various methods from nails being hammered through the top of the skull, to beheading, to being beaten to death with various farming implements. After being executed the bodies were thrown in mass graves. When exhumed tens of thousands of bodies were found.
This is the fence around one of the exhumed mass graves. People have lovingly left friendship bracelets in sympathy, support and remembrance of those who suffered such an awful regime.