The annual Day of Remembrance ceremony at Choeung Ek, a notorious killing field near Phnom Penh, commemorated the victims of the Khmer Rouge regime, which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. This year, approximately 2,000 attendees, including Buddhist monks, witnessed student actors from a local art school reenact harrowing scenes of torture and execution, dressed in the black uniforms of Khmer Rouge soldiers. The ceremony concluded with a powerful symbolic representation of the regime's fall, when Vietnamese forces finally put an end to that devastating chapter in Cambodian history.
The annual Day of Remembrance ceremony at Choeung Ek, a former killing field, gathered around 2,000 attendees, including Buddhist monks, to honor the victims of the Khmer Rouge.
Student actors re-enacted scenes of torture and execution in black uniforms, vividly portraying the brutal experiences faced by the victims during the regime's reign.
The ceremony concluded with a symbolic re-enactment of the fall of the Khmer Rouge, commemorating the end of a tragic era marked by atrocities.
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