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ជើងឯក | |
 Choeung Ek stupa in 2012 | |
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| 11°29′4″N 104°54′7″E / 11.48444°N 104.90194°E | |
| Location | Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
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| Type | Buddhist stupa |
| Height | 62 m (203 ft) |
| Beginning date | 1988 |
Choeung Ek (Khmer: ជើងឯក, Cheung Êk [cəːŋ ʔaek]) is a former orchard in Dangkao, Phnom Penh, Cambodia,[1] that was used as a Killing Field between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge in perpetrating the Cambodian genocide. Situated about 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of the city centre, it was attached to the Tuol Sleng detention centre. The bodies of 8,895 victims were exhumed from the site after the fall of the Rouge, who would have been executed there—typically with pickaxes to conserve bullets—before being buried in mass graves.
It is the best-known of the approximately 300 Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime collectively executed over one million[2] people as part of their Cambodian genocide between 1975 and 1979.
- ^ "Property Tax Map". City of Phnom Penh. Retrieved 2020-05-06. - Map of Dangkor Section - Compare map to Google Maps view of Dangkor District.
- ^ Sharp, Bruce (1 April 2005). "Counting Hell: The Death Toll of the Khmer Rouge Regime in Cambodia". Retrieved 5 July 2006.