In Memory of the Millions of Victims of Khmer Rouge Regime

Ban Tran, a business man living in Victoria BC, Canada, has been fundraising, accepting donations, and using his own money for the past 2 years in order to continue an abandoned Mountain Side Carving of a Buddha Statue Project which was started in 2003 on a wall of mountain rock in Battambang, Cambodia. The carving project ended abruptly due to his cousin's passing from cancer. This statue will be 38 meters high when complete.

https://youtu.be/QUvgPfC2m4E

Mountain of Phnom Sampeau, is famous for the so called Killing Caves from the time of the Khmer Rouge regime. It is also a pilgrimage site with many Buddhist shrines and statues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_caves_of_Phnom_Sampeau

More then 2 million victims were executed between 1975 - 1979, remains still buried in more then 20,000 mass graves. The Khmer Rouge regime persecuted ethnics of Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Cham, Cambodian Christians, and Buddhist Monks through executions. To save on ammunition, executions were carried out by ways of poison, sharpened bamboo sticks, and bashing infants and little children heads against tree trunks. Their rationale was "to stop them from growing up and taking revenge for their parents' death". This Cambodian genocide has been described as "the purest genocide of the Cold War era".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge

Funds are running low, and we are reaching out in hope to continue an important monument which will represent and promote culture, non-violence, Buddhism, and tourism. 

Our goal is to bring awareness and raise $100,000 and complete this project within one year. The cost to hire 17 sculptures to carve through the mountain side is $300 a month per person, in addition to the costs for replacing broken tools and excavating. 

Your thoughtfulness is a gift which will bring great meaning and will represent the millions who were executed and still remain in the caves. We will be touched beyond words when this great monument is complete.