‘Killing Fields’ remembered

Harsh reminder: Students taking part in a performance to mark the annual ‘Day of Remembrance’ at the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial in Phnom Penh. — AFP

Phnom Penh: Black-clad students re-enacted the horrors of the Cambodian genocide at the “Killing Fields” to commemorate the two million people killed by the Khmer Rouge’s murderous, Maoist regime.

Hundreds gathered at the notorious site in Phnom Penh to mark the annual Day of Remembrance with prayers and performances, including students wielding wooden rifles, knives and bamboo sticks in mock attacks.