Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Khmer Rouge Security Prison 21 (S-21) |
Introduction to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum |
The 10 Commandments prisoners were required to follow at S21 |
The Khmer Rouge expelled the populations off all urban centers in Cambodia starting in 1975 |
Colorized photograph of a teenaged prisoner murdered by the Khmer Rouge |
S21 was a high school before the Khmer Rouge converted it to a prison in 1975 |
Tombs of victims remains found onsite after the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979 |
Tuol Sleng prison - S21 - Phnom Penh |
Tuol Sleng prison - S21 - Phnom Penh |
A former classroom converted by the Khmer Rouge into a torture chamber |
The Khmer Rouge documented the 20,000 or so victims interrogated at the prison |
Historic photograph documenting the crimes of the Khmer Rouge |
Another former classroom at S21 used as a torture chamber |
Playground equipment used for hangings |
Rooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims |
Pol Pot's insanity was rooted in a desire to transform Cambodia into a pure agrarian society |
I believe those with hats were former Khmer Rouge who were denounced and then executed |
Children were not spared by the Khmer Rouge |
Anyone with an education was slated for destruction |
There are only 12 known survivors of Tuol Sleng |
Victim's portait, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum |
Where was I on 22 August 1978? Where were you? |
Frightened boy |
Young and old, killed alike |
Some victims died of their torture before they could be taken away for execution |
Bats hanging from the ceiling of the former school |
The former school yard, S21 Prison, Phnom Penh |
Tuol Sleng - Khmer Rouge Security Prison S21 |
Part of the school that was converted into holding cells for the prisoners |
The most evil man since Adolf Hitler |
Inmates were driven outside of Phnom Penh for execution at the Killing Fields |
To save bullets, executions were by clubbing |
Khmer Rouge torture at S21 |
Khmer Rouge torture at S21 |
A victim being carried away like a piece of meat, S21 |
Prisoner awaiting his fate, Tuol Sleng, Phnom Penh |
These paintings were done by Vann Nath, a former prisoner, one of only 12 known to have survived |
Khmer Rouge slitting the throat of a prisoner, S21 |
View from behind the wire, Tuol Sleng prison S21, Phnom Penh |
Classrooms partitioned into tiny cells, Tuol Sleng prison, S21 |
Classrooms partitioned into tiny cells, Tuol Sleng prison, S21 |
One of the prison cells, S21 |
Barred window, S21 |
Prison block, Tuol Sleng, S21 |
Choeung Ek Genocidal Center - the Killing Fields |
Choeung Ek Genocidal Center - the Killing Fields, 30 minutes outside Phnom Penh |
Choeung Ek Genocidal Center - the Killing Fields |
The history of the Khmer Rouge and the killing fields |
Memorial stupa, Choeung Ek Genocidal Center |
Memorial stupa, Choeung Ek Genocidal Center |
The stupa is filled with the remains of 8985 victims found in mass graves here |
This is just a small number of the estimated 1.5 million who died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge 1975-1979 |
The insanity was put to an end when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia in 1979, driving Pol Pot into the jungle |
Pol Pot died in 1998, never facing trial for his crimes |
Request to show respect at the memorial |
Skulls of some of the victims enshrined in the memorial stupa at Choeung Ek |
Inside the Memorial, Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, Cambodia |
These were the people whose photosgraphs line the walls of Tuol Sleng |
The shelves contain thousands of skulls |
The remains of mass grave pits, Choeung Ek, the Killing Fields, Cambodia |
Killing Tree used to smash the heads of children |
Mass Grave, Choeung Ek |
Mass Grave, Choeung Ek |
In total, 86 mass graves were found at this site with the remains of 8985 victims |
They are still, to this day, finding bone fragments and teeth of victims |