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The killing caves of Phnom Sampeau are a Khmer Rouge (KR) execution site on Phnom Sampeau, a hill 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Battambang in western Cambodia. KR killed their victims on top of the cave at the rim of a daylight shaft or ceiling hole and threw the corpses into the cave.[1] Men and women were placed in separate caves and clothes in another.[1] Phnom Sampeau (Sampeau Hill) has multiple caves that traditionally served as Buddhist temples. A large glass memorial in the cave next to the skulls and bones and a golden reclining Buddha mark the massacre. A memorial assembled from cyclone fencing and chicken wire contains human bones.[2][3]
- ^ a b DK Travel Guides (1 June 2011). DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Cambodia & Laos. Dorling Kindersley Limited. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-4053-4985-7.
- ^ Ray, Nick; Bloom, Greg; Robinson, Daniel (1 July 2010). Cambodia 7. Lonely Planet. pp. 256–. ISBN 978-1-74179-457-1. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ Lonely Planet Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & Northern Thailand. Lonely Planet. 2012. pp. 324–. ISBN 978-1-74220-700-1. Retrieved 3 January 2013.