Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Between 1975 and 1978 about 17.000 men, women, children and infants (including nine westerners) detained and tortured at S-21 prison were transported to the extermination camp of Choeung Ek. They were often bludgeoned to death to avoid wasting bullets. Fragments of human bone and bits of cloth are scattered around the disinterred pits. Over 8000 skulls, arranged by sex and age, are visible behind the clear glass panels of the Memorial Stupa, which was erected in 1988. It has taken over 10 years to set up a tribunal to try representatives of the Pol Pot regime responsible for the atrocities. After several pre-trial hearings which began in late 2008, the very first trial (beginning with Comrade Duch) started on 30 March, 2009 in Phnom Penh and will run for several weeks. The trials are controversial as perpetrators of the genocide are still living, working and governing in the country.