Cambodian Genocide 1975-1979

The Killing Fields

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Introduction

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• “Killing fields” are a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979

What are the killing fields?

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What is genocide?

• The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.

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• The Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, in which approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country's population), was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century.

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• Before the Khmer Rouge regime rose to power, it was initially just a high school. Subsequently, it was converted into a deadly prison known as Security Prison 21 by the Khmer Rouge

Tuol Sleng (S-21)

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• Toul Sleng was where more than 20, 000 Cambodian people were tortured and interrogated before sending to the execution at the Killing Fields.

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• best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed about 17,000 people between 1975 and 1979.

• Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former inmates in the Tuol Sleng prison.

Choeung Ek

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Summary:

• Complete your D,L,I,Q• D – What did you do?• L – What did you learn?• I – What did you find interesting?• Q – Write a question?

• All answers should be in complete sentences.