CAMBODIA. Province of Takeo. South of Phnom Penh. 1996. Killing field under the Khmer Rouge. Between 1975 and 1979, around one quarter of the Cambodian population (two million people) died due to forced relocation, torture, mass executions, forced labour, malnutrition and disease, in pursuit of the Khmer Rouge’s classless agrarian society utopia. More than 24,000 mass graves dot the country.
Photograph: Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos