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REGION: Asia-Pacific
TOPIC: Politics
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SLIDE SHOW Posted: June 18, 2009   
Cambodia's 'Killing Fields' Sprout New Purpose FLASH VERSION
Cambodia's "killing fields" are the site of mass graves where the Khmer Rouge regime executed and buried people suspected of having ties with the former government in the 1970s. Now, the fields are used for rice production to help feed Cambodia's poor.
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Human Skulls, Tourists visit the memorial at Choeung Ek, marked with a Buddhist stupa that displays about 5,000 human skulls. Bone fragments still litter the site.
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Human Skulls
Tourists visit the memorial at Choeung Ek, marked with a Buddhist stupa that displays about 5,000 human skulls. Bone fragments still litter the site.
Photo Credit: TANG CHHIN SOTHY/AFP/Getty Images
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