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Cambodia: Layers of skulls of victims killed by the Khmer Rouge in the Memorial Stupa of Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, so

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Cambodia: Layers of skulls of victims killed by the Khmer Rouge in the Memorial Stupa of Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, south of Phnom Penh 2016 About 12 km 7½ miles south of Phnom Penh lie the infamous Killing Fields of Choeung Ek. Here victims of the Khmer Rouge, including many from Tuol Sleng, were taken for execution and burial in mass graves. Many of these have now been exhumed, and a stupa-shaped mausoleum has been erected to their memory.br/br/ The Khmer Rouge, or Communist Party of Kampuchea, ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan. It is remembered primarily for its brutality and policy of social engineering which resulted in millions of deaths. Its attempts at agric Copyright: xOliverxHargreavexOliverxHargreavex/xPicturesxFromx

Date

18 févr. 2016

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Photo12/Imago/CPA Media

Notre référence

MGO25A03_468

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Non

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Droits gérés

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45,9Mo (1,6Mo) / 28,0cm x 41,1cm / 3308 x 4850 (300dpi)

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agricultural reform widespread famine while insistence on absolute self-sufficiency even supply medicine deaths thousands treatable diseases such as malaria . Brutal arbitrary executions torture carried out cadres against perceived subversive elements during purges own ranks between 1976 1978 are considered constituted genocide. Several former currently trial war crimes Penh. x0x xkwx 2016 hoch Südostasiatischen Southeast Asia Kambodscha Völkermord Genocide Mahnmal S-21 Folter Torture Mord Murder Asien asiatisch Asian Indochina kambodschanische Cambodian S 21 Democratic DK Krieg War Crime Against Humanity Barbarei Barbarism Hungersnot Famine Hungertod Starvation Autarky Kommunismus Communism Agrarianism Maoismus Maoism Peasant Revolution OLIVER HARGREAVE Centre Lichtbild Photograph