ABC Radio Australia
This time every year, a ceremony is held at the notorious Killing Fields on the outskirts of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh to remember the victims of the Khmer Rouge.
Presenter: Robert Carmichael
Speakers: Pa Socheatvong, deputy governor of Phnom Penh
ROBERT CARMICHAEL: Cambodia marked the saddest period in its history on Thursday with the annual remembrance service for victims of the Khmer Rouge regime.
The ceremony is known as the Day of Anger, and is held on the edge of Phnom Penh at a place called Chhoeung Ek.
Today Chhoeung Ek is a popular tourist site known to most of them as the Killing Fields. Between 1975 and 1979, it was a place where thousands of Cambodians were taken to be killed - generally by a blow with an iron bar to the back of the neck.
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