Cambodian Genocide - Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh is the first of two memorials of the Khmer Rouge “revolution” that left over 1 million Cambodians dead. The second memorial is erected at Choeung Ek, about 17 km south of Phnom Penh.
Waymark Code: WME9H4
Location: Cambodia
Date Posted: 04/22/2012
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"Tuol Sleng is a former school that was turned into a prison when schools were outlawed. The prison was called “S-21” or “Tuol Sleng” and it played a central role in the identification and execution of those accused of treason within the Khmer Rouge itself. Of the over 20,000 people sent to the prison, only 7-12 reportedly survived." (
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"Between 1975 and 1979 the ruling Khmer Rouge incarcerated, tortured, documented and murdered 17,000 men, women and children at Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek (the "Killing Fields") a few kilometers outside the capital. 1.7 million people were slaughtered in four years of madness."
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"The historical photographs and documents from the site of the S-21 prison and interrogation center of the Pol Pot regime, currently held at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, were listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register on 31 July, 2009. The museum archive holds 4,186 prisoner “confessions”, 6,226 biographies of prisoners and 6,147 photographic prints." (
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The sadness I have felt during my visit to the Genocide Museum was increased by the story of the personal experience of our guide whose husband was arrested and never came back.