For many people, Cambodia conjures up images of genocide, specifically the terrible reign of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. From 1975 to 1979, he instituted an agrarian reform policy based on Maoist ideology that saw the forced relocation, torture, and murder of at least a million people. With these facts in mind, I rode out to a former site of mass slaughter — Choeung Ek (the Killing Fields).