The Killing Fields

After taking a long bus ride up to Rach Gia, a border city between Vietnam and Cambodia, we set out on a slow boat up the Mekong Delta into Cambodia. Our arrival destination was the city of Phenom Pein. From the city, we made a day trip to "the Killing FIelds" near by. It is a mass grave sight where thousands of men, women, and children were ruthlessly murdered during a genocide that occurred between the Khmer Rouge's four year occupation (75-79). A horrible but necessary place to visit. Being at the site combined with realizing how relatively recent this all happened provided a lot of insight as to where and why Cambodia stands today.

As a memorial to the dead, this stupa was built and filled with the bones and skulls of the victims found in the graves.


Mass graves grown over with grass.