Name: Killing Caves
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Isabella 🚲🏄‍♀️🚶‍♀️🏍🏊‍♀️🛴🛼🎾🪘🛵

December 10, 2024

This cave is a scary place. A flashlight is recommended. Skulls and bones lie in the rock as a reminder of the horror. The Khmer Rouge marched people, lined them up, then beat them to death and let their bodies fall into the darkness below.

The place has been converted into a memorial for those who lost their lives here. The descent into the cave is beautiful - the rock is covered with green vegetation and low-hanging lianas. The cave is quite large inside and in the middle of the room lies a huge golden Buddha. But at the foot of the stairs there is a wire mesh cage full of bones. The atrocities that took place in this beautiful place suddenly become very present. To the right is another memorial with human remains enclosed in a glass box.

Today a mixture of mostly Cambodian tourists mill around the caves.

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Halbschuh

April 13, 2025

There are several caves on Phnom Sampeau that serve as Buddhist temples. Some of the caves were used for executions by the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge killed their victims above the caves and then threw them down a shaft. Women and men were separated. Their clothing was stored in another cave.

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webo

January 28, 2025

Up the street, down the stairs. A leisurely stroll

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