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Cheoung Ek Museum in Phnom Penh


Cambodia - Phnom Penh - Siem Reap - Sihanoukville
Cheoung Ek Museum in Phnom Penh is a fantastic museum in the city and tourists from the far flung parts of the world come here. Cheoung Ek Museum at Phnom Penh is famous for being a part of the Killing Fields which is a historic site.

History of the Choeung Ek Museum in Phnom Penh

Cheoung Ek Museum in Phnom Penh is actually a memorial now. The place had become really popular after the mass killings of the Cambodian population in the years between 1975 and1979. The bodies were found at Choeung Ek during the Khmer regime and most of the dead were known to each other as they had stayed together at the Tuol Sleng prisons. The mass graves contained almost 8,895 bodies and the place has been associated with gruesome past of Cambodia.

Attractions of the Cheoung Ek Museum in Phnom Penh

The Cheoung Ek Museum in Phnom Penh houses many important attractions. The Cheoung Ek Museum in Phnom Penh is actually a memorial which has become the resting place for the numerous souls who have perished here after the Khmer Regime. The museum cum Genocide center is a very attractive tourist destination as the center houses as many as 5,000 skulls and other remains of the human body. The place stands as a horrifying remainder of the atrocities inflicted on the innocent. However most of the human remains have been shattered and destroyed as they were too gruesome for human viewing.

In order to reach the Cheoung Ek Museum in Phnom Penh Cambodia one would find access to the museum very easily available. Tourists can travel to the center either by buses and cars. One can afford to miss the Cheoung Ek Museum in Phnom Penh as it happens to be one of the historic and best Museums in Phnom Penh.

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