Killing Fields: 'Day of Hatred' or Day of Remembrance
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Killing Fields: 'Day of Hatred' or Day of Remembrance
Odd to find this article in a Thai newspaper, and nothing on the front pages of the EL Cambodian news. Also odd to discover that the Day of Remembrance was held two days early this year due to elections - perhaps the idea is that it would be more low-key on a Thursday rather than a Saturday ? Not sure why this suits the powers that be. Ideas ?
Cambodians remember victims of 'Killing Fields'
18 May 2017
PHNOM PENH -- Hundreds of people gathered at one of Cambodia's most notorious "Killing Fields" on Thursday to remember victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide of at least 1.8 million Cambodians in the 1970s.
Most of the victims died of starvation, torture, exhaustion or disease in labour camps or were bludgeoned to death during mass executions. At Choeung Ek, some 15 km (9 miles) from the Cambodian capital, heavy rains to this day wash fragments of bone and scraps of the victims' clothing from mass graves.
A tower of skulls and bones stands at the centre of a memorial to an era in which hardly any Cambodian family was spared losses.
The Day of Remembrance, once known as the "Day of Hatred", is usually held on May 20 but was brought forward this year due to local election campaigning...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/1 ... ing-fields
Cambodians remember victims of 'Killing Fields'
18 May 2017
PHNOM PENH -- Hundreds of people gathered at one of Cambodia's most notorious "Killing Fields" on Thursday to remember victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide of at least 1.8 million Cambodians in the 1970s.
Most of the victims died of starvation, torture, exhaustion or disease in labour camps or were bludgeoned to death during mass executions. At Choeung Ek, some 15 km (9 miles) from the Cambodian capital, heavy rains to this day wash fragments of bone and scraps of the victims' clothing from mass graves.
A tower of skulls and bones stands at the centre of a memorial to an era in which hardly any Cambodian family was spared losses.
The Day of Remembrance, once known as the "Day of Hatred", is usually held on May 20 but was brought forward this year due to local election campaigning...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/1 ... ing-fields
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