Between mid-1975 and December 1978, about 17,000 men, women, and children (including 9 Westerners), detained and tortured at S-21 prison, were transported to the extermination camp of Choeung Ek to be executed. Many were bludgeoned to death, to avoid wasting precious bullets.
The remains of 8985 people, many of whom were found bound and blindfolded, were exhumed from mass graves in 1980. Fragments of human bone and bits of cloth are scattered around the disinterred pits. More than 8000 skulls, arranged by sex and age, are visible behind the clear glass panels of the Memorial Stupa, erected in 1988.
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