Number crunching

There was a slightly unreal feel about walking through the Killing Fields while groups of little children play and sing in the background. While we tread carefully not to step on bone fragments, the kids skip and frolick in the abutting paddock.

It is difficult to get a definitive answer as to how many were killed during the Pol Pot regime. Western reports say around 2,000,000 people were killed. Our guide said it was more like 3,000,000.