Refugee crises · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Choeung Ek (1975–79)
1975–79 — Prisoners of the Tuol Sleng (S-21) interrogation centre were taken to this former orchard south of Phnom Penh to be killed and buried. A memorial stupa now holds thousands of skulls. Under Democratic Kampuchea between 1.5 and 2.2 million people died from execution, starvation and disease. Remember them.
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- Type
- Site of memory
- Chapter
- Re-education camps and Hoa exodus (chapter 8 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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