The next day provided Rachel and I another opportunity to reflect on Cambodia’s horrific past as we traveled 17km south of Phnom Penh to Choeung Ek, one of Cambodia’s infamous Killing Fields. During the Cambodian Genocide, prisoners from S-21 were taken to Choeung Ek and murdered before being dumped into mass graves. Since bullets were expensive most of the victims were bludgeoned to death. Throughout Cambodia there are an estimated 20,000 mass graves just like Choeung Ek. Today Choeung Ek is a memorial and museum. When we entered Choeung Ek we were given a listening device which provided us with a tour of the grounds. There are around two dozen numbered stops in Choeung Ek and each is accompanied with a piece to listen to at the specific stops. The audio tour included a history of the Choeung Ek, stories from survivors and former Khmer Rouge, and other interesting information (including a piece about how Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were supported by the UN and the USA as a government in exile during the 1980′). Much of the tour consisted of walking around large holes in the ground where mass graves were exhumed, and the tour finishes with a visit to the large memorial stupa which contains skulls and other bones from the almost 10,000 people who murdered at Choeung Ek. The tour finished with the narrator speaking about the importance of remembering the genocide, and other recent genocides (such as the Holocaust, the genocide of Indigenous people in America, and Rwanda among others) in order to build a more compassionate world. Choeung Ek was immensely powerful place, and although parts of it our very hard to look at/listen to it is an important place to visit and reflect on.