By Associated Press,
Updated: Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The Washington Post
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Workers
building a house for a Buddhist monk in Cambodia have discovered the
remains of 18 people believed to have been killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Laborer Nhoung Snieng said Tuesday that they started finding
the remains, some shackled, when they began digging last week at Kes
Sararam temple in the northwestern province of Siem Reap.
The temple’s chief monk, Sambath Ly Yeath, said the site had been a
Khmer Rouge prison when the ultra-communist group ruled Cambodia between
1975 and 1979. An estimated 1.7 million people died under the regime.
Siem
Reap is famous for its centuries-old Angkor temple complex. The most
notorious Khmer Rouge prison was the Tuol Sleng torture center in Phnom
Penh, but the group maintained around 200 prisons nationwide.
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