Healing after the killing

Gruesome reminders: Buddhist monks praying for the dead at the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial, some 15km south-west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. As many as two million people died from starvation, overwork or execution during the 1975-79 rule of the Khmer Rouge - AFP

The darkest chapter in the history of Cambodia draws to a close.

THE thousands of black and white photos of condemned prisoners displayed at the Tuol Sleng museum in Phnom Penh are a stark reminder of the 17,000 Cambodians who have died in this once notorious prison where only 12 made it out alive.