Memorial Built for Prisoners Executed at Pagoda

Human skulls and bones of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime are displayed in a stupa at Sgnuon Pech pagoda, about 20 kilometers (13 miles) southwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photo: AP)

Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh
Thursday, 20 May 2010

Nearly 100 villagers gathered together on the outskirts of Phnom Penh Wednesday, to place the bones of Khmer Rouge victims at a pagoda memorial not far from the UN-backed tribunal.

The villagers had a Buddhist ritual performed at the Wat Sgnoun Pich pagoda, where they placed the remains of some 60 people to represent the more than 1,000 who were filled here under the Khmer Rouge.

The pagoda had been a Khmer Rouge prison site, holding hundreds of people at a time.

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