A photo made available on 16 April 2015 shows skulls of Khmer Rouge victims on display at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 prison), in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 10 April 2015. The Khmer Rouge regime is from 1975 to 1979, this year 2015 sees the 40 year anniversary of the fall of Cambodia into the hands of the radical communist Khmer Rouge. Some two million Cambodians are estimated to have died by starvation and forced labor or were killed in politically justified executions during the Khmer Rouge regime. EPA
A few hundred people, including monks and elderly regime survivors, gathered early Friday at Choeung Ek -- the most notorious of the regime’s “Killing Fields” on the capital’s outskirts -- burning incense and saying Buddhist prayers at a memorial stupa housing the skulls and bones of victims.
The event commemorates the April 17, 1975 triumph of the hardline communist Khmer Rouge over the US-backed republican army of Lon Nol.
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