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Choeung Ek (Khmer: ជើងឯក [cəəŋ aek]) the site of a former orchard and mass grave of victims of the Khmer Rouge – killed between 1975 and 1979 – about 17 km south of Phnom Penh Cambodia is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields where the Khmer Rouge regime executed over one million people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing 8895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime.

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