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According to Wikipedia, "The Killing Fields were a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the totalitarian communist Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately following the end of the Vietnam War. ... At least 200,000 people were executed by the Khmer Rouge (while estimates of the total number of deaths resulting from Khmer Rouge policies, including disease and starvation, range from 1.4 to 2.2 million out of a population of around 7 million)."
This is the best-known of the killing fields, Choung Ek, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. The ground is covered with shallow pits, which are excavated mass graves. The recovered skulls are housed in a commemorative stupa.
