Cambodian genocide
Videos
The Cambodian genocide was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens by the Khmer Rouge under the general secretaryship of Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of approximately 2 mill
Skulls at the Choeung Ek memorial in Cambodia
Pol Pot in 1978
Mao Zedong, Peng Zhen, Norodom Sihanouk and Liu Shaoqi (1965)
Rooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
Videos
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum for the Cambodian genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, the site is a former secondary school that had been turned into an internment facility known as Security P
Cambodian genocide
…200,000–300,000 Chinese Cambodians, 90,000–500,000 Cambodian Cham (who are mostly Muslim), and 20,000 Vietnamese Cambodians. 20,000 people passed through the Security Prison 21, one of the 196 prisons the Khmer Rouge operated, and only seven adults survived. The prisoners were taken to the Killing Fields, where they were…
The exterior of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, 2006
Most of the school rooms were divided into cells
A brick cell inside Cambodia's S-21 prison
View from inside an S-21 Prison Cell