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Choeung Ek Genocide Center
Choeung Ek Genocide Center, located 17 kilometers south of Phnom Penh, is the best-known of the more than 20,000 mass execution sites scattered across Cambodia known as the Killing Fields. Between 1975 and 1979, over 15,000 men, women, and children transported from S-21 prison were executed and buried in mass graves here. Surrounded by quiet farmland and ancient longan orchards, Choeung Ek is revered as a sacred, deeply haunted site where spirits are said to roam during monsoon rainstorms.