This tree was used to kill infants by bashing them against the trunk at Choeung Ek Killing Field. during Khmer Rouge Pol Pot era

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This tree was used to kill infants by bashing their skulls against the trunk at Choeung Ek Killing Field. Today memorial ribbons hang from the trunk. Two million of Cambodia's seven million people died during the Khmer Rouge regime. Half were killed, half Ek Killing Field, nine miles (14 km) southwest of Phnom Penh, where thousands of Cambodian people were killed and buried in 129 mass graves during the reign of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot. It is today a memorial.

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Size: 2400px × 3600px
Location: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
Photo credit: © Yvette Cardozo / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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