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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum description and photos - Cambodia: Phnom Penh. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.

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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a territory and buildings of a comprehensive school, rebuilt into the notorious "Security Prison 21" or (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge. "Tuol Sleng" translated from Khmer means "Mountain of the poisoned forest" or "Mountain strychnine". Tuol Sleng was one of at least 150 execution and torture centers established by the Khmer Rouge and, according to research, more than twenty thousand prisoners were tortured on the territory of this institution from 1975 to 1979.

In 1975, the regular Tuol Svei Prey school was transformed into a prison by Pol Pot's troops. All prisoners thrown into the S-21 were filmed before and after the torture. The exhibits in the museum halls are rows of rooms with black and white photographs of children who were later killed, men and women with wooden plates on their chests with the number and date of the shooting, who were later killed. In addition to local residents, S-21 also contained foreigners from Australia, New Zealand and the United States, none of them survived.

When the Khmer Rouge revolution reached the extreme point of insanity, it began to destroy itself. Generations of torturers and executioners who worked in the prison were in turn killed by their successors. At the beginning of 1977, when the party cleansing of the Eastern Zone personnel began, about 100 people died in S-21 every day.

When Phnom Penh was liberated by the Vietnamese army in early 1979, only seven prisoners were found in S-21 , and in the courtyard and in the interior were found the bodies of fourteen people tortured to death. Their burials in the courtyard are also part of the exhibition. Two of the miraculous survivors, Chum Mei and Bo Meng, are still alive and often spend time in S-21, telling visitors about their time in prison.

A visit to the Tuol Sleng Museum, created in 1980, is not for weak in spirit; a quiet suburb, simple school buildings, and a children's playground are juxtaposed with tiers of rusty beds, torture devices and rows of portraits of prisoners.

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