Choeung Ek is where the Killing Fields are located. One of over 300 locations in Cambodia where people were executed during the Khmer Rouge. Many were kept as prisoners at S-21 and later brought here to be executed. People that is -- people. Brought here in truck loads, told they were just being relocated. Today I saw mass graves before me, where people were thrown into piles one after one. A tree whose naturally sharp bark was used to slit throats. Another tree used to smash defenseless children against until they died. To this day bones still surface after heavy rainfalls.
I saw piles of bones, jars of teeth, and rows and rows of skulls. I walked the site of innumerable deaths. Deaths that happened at all times of the day. Music would play to drown out the screams. DDT was poured to cover the stench, and kill off anyone buried alive. This happened to everyday people. Confessing to crimes never committed and executed for simply existing. It all happened, and not too long ago.