Hi all,
Just sharing of my picture taken at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. It was really a disheartening and sad place which tells a thousand words on how the people was tortured and killed during the khmer rouge. Hope you guys can feel the atmosphere as what I felt during the visit there.
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The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge communist regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. Tuol Sleng (Khmer [tuəl slaeŋ]) means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill".
At the entrance:
As you walk in, on the left you are "greeted" by the grave of 14 victim follow by Building A. Building A holds the large cells in which the bodies of the last victims were discovered:
Inside Building A in one of the cell. Each rooms contain only a rusting iron bedframe, beneath a black and white photograph shown above showing the room as it was found by the Vietnamese. In each photograph, the mutilated body of a prisoner is chained to the bed, killed by his fleeing captors only hours before the prison was captured.
As we move into each individual room, the tour guide actually describe how the Khmer Rouge torture each prisoner:
Just sharing of my picture taken at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. It was really a disheartening and sad place which tells a thousand words on how the people was tortured and killed during the khmer rouge. Hope you guys can feel the atmosphere as what I felt during the visit there.
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The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge communist regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. Tuol Sleng (Khmer [tuəl slaeŋ]) means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill".
At the entrance:
As you walk in, on the left you are "greeted" by the grave of 14 victim follow by Building A. Building A holds the large cells in which the bodies of the last victims were discovered:
Inside Building A in one of the cell. Each rooms contain only a rusting iron bedframe, beneath a black and white photograph shown above showing the room as it was found by the Vietnamese. In each photograph, the mutilated body of a prisoner is chained to the bed, killed by his fleeing captors only hours before the prison was captured.
As we move into each individual room, the tour guide actually describe how the Khmer Rouge torture each prisoner:
