The Memorial Site for the Crimes of the Pol Pot Genocidal Regime Ba Chuc Charnel-house Ba Chuc Town - Tri Ton District

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           Ba Chuc, located in the Seven Mountains area and 7 kilometers from the Vietnam-Cambodia border, is a town with a significant Khmer ethnic community. It serves as the center for the Tu An Hieu Nghia religion. Additionally, Ba Chuc has a revolutionary tradition from the two resistance periods against the French and the Americans

              After the liberation of the South, along with the rest of the country, the people of Ba Chuc began to recover from the war, striving to build socialism and a prosperous, happy life. However, on the night of April 30, 1977, the genocidal Pol Pot forces launched a simultaneous attack on 14 border communes of An Giang province, marking the beginning of the Southwestern border war. Nearly two years later, on January 1, 1979, the army and people of An Giang expelled the Pol Pot forces from the province's border, completely ending the border invasion war.

              In Ba Chuc, the genocidal Pol Pot forces assembled forces equivalent to entire divisions to attack over 30 times, firing thousands of artillery shells into densely populated areas. Wherever they went, they burned houses, looted property, and committed mass killings. Over 11 days and nights of invasion (from April 18, 1978, to April 29, 1978), the Pol Pot forces massacred 3,157 innocent people in Ba Chuc.

              Here are some of the key sites that serve as evidence of the heinous crimes committed by the genocidal Pol Pot forces against the people of Ba Chuc