Hidden history: Radar probes mass graves from Khmer Rouge era
726 views · Published 5 November 2018 · 1:31 · Indexed 21 September 2026
Channel: AFP News Agency · 2018 · News & Politics
A man walks gingerly over a small field in rural Cambodia, pushing a lawnmower-like contraption that deploys ground-penetrating radar to unearth clues of mass graves. The pilot project is twinning technology and fieldwork to locate remains of victims of the Khmer Rouge, the ultra-Maoist regime whose quest to build an agrarian utopia from 1975-1979 left an estimated two million Cambodians dead.
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