Editing Choeung Ek (section)

==Description==
[[File:Cambodia 2011 monuments 20.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mass graves at Choeung Ek]]
[[File:Killing Fields 20170222-1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Some of more than 5,000 skulls of the victims placed in the stupa]]
[[Mass grave|Mass graves]] containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former political prisoners who the Khmer Rouge kept in their [[Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum|Tuol Sleng detention center]] and in other Cambodian detention centers.

Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a [[Buddhist]] [[stupa]]. The stupa has [[acrylic glass]] sides and is filled with over 5,000 human skulls. Some lower levels are opened during the day so that the skulls can be seen directly. Many have been shattered or smashed in.

Tourists are encouraged by the [[Politics of Cambodia|Cambodian government]] to visit Choeung Ek. Apart from the stupa, there are pits from which the bodies were exhumed. Human bones still litter the site.

On 3 May 2005, the Municipality of Phnom Penh announced that they had entered into a 30-year agreement with JC Royal Co. to develop the memorial at Choeung Ek.<ref>{{cite news|last=Doyle|first=Kevin|title=The Revenue Fields|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1047552,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712041324/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1047552,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 July 2007|access-date=27 July 2010|newspaper=Time|date=2005-04-11}}</ref>  As part of the agreement, they are not to disturb the remains still present in the field.