The annual Day of Remembrance ceremony took place at Choeung Ek, a former “killing field” near Phnom Penh, where thousands were executed during the regime’s rule from 1975 to 1979.
Around 2,000 people, including Buddhist monks, gathered to watch student actors from a local art school re-enact scenes of torture and execution. Dressed in the black uniforms once worn by Khmer Rouge fighters, the students portrayed the horrors faced by victims.
The event closed with a symbolic re-enactment of the regime’s fall, when Vietnamese forces ended one of the 20th century’s darkest chapters.
