Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
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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
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
Khmer Rouge
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Khmer Rouge is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, and by extension to Democratic Kampuchea, which ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name was coin
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
…Located in Phnom Penh, the site is a former secondary school that had been turned into an internment facility known as Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until its fall in 1979. From 1976 to 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng; it was one of between 150 and 196…
Khmer Rouge clothing, consisting of a red krama, a black outfit and shoes made of tires.
Khmer Rouge bullet holes left at Angkor Wat temple
An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia
Rooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims.