Two opened mass graves at Cheung Ek, Kandal province, 1981. More than 8,000 bodies were discovered here. By 1982, remains from the Cheung Ek grave site had been collected in a wooden shed as a memorial.

      This is a mass grave discovered in Cheuek, Kandal Province, Cambodia, in 1981. Over 8,000 bodies were discovered here. By 1982, the remains recovered from the Cheuek cemetery were housed in a wooden warehouse as a memorial. The Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia during the Democratic Kampuchea era (1975–1979) under a communist-inspired radical ideology.

      Choeuek was an orchard located in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. It was used as a killing field between 1975 and 1979. It was used by the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian Genocide. It is located approximately 17 kilometers south of the center of Phnom Penh and was adjacent to the Tuol Sleng prison. After the collapse of the Khmer Rouge, the remains of 8,895 Cambodian victims were exhumed. Cambodians were executed there before being buried in mass graves. It was the site where the Khmer Rouge regime executed over one million people as part of the Cambodian Genocide from 1975 to 1979.

     Many of the deceased were former political prisoners who had been detained at Tuol Sleng Prison or other Cambodian detention centers by the Khmer Rouge. Between 1976 and 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng, with only seven adults surviving. The secret police unit responsible for internal security in Cambodia, known as the S-21, operated the Tuol Sleng (S-21) detention center, where prisoners were imprisoned, interrogated, tortured, and executed.