Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

former high school turned into a prison by the Khmer Rouge
Genocide Museum -

Location: 

St 113, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Duration: 

Monday, July 3, 2017

Personal highlights

  1. Tuol Sleng: former high school turned into a prison by the Khmer Rouge
  2. Genocide Museum: visited by many foreigners but not enough locals!
  3. Cambodian Genocide: world's worst genocide after WW2 and the USSR
  4. Security Prison 21: classrooms turned into cells to host dozens of people
  5. Survivors: out of 20,000 prisoners there are only 7 known survivors

Image sources

  1. Survivor of the Genocide
  2. Barbwired school
  3. Names of the victims
  4. Hallway to the classrooms
  5. Number of the prisons

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