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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, museum and former prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, that commemorates the genocide carried out by the Khmer Rouge government under Pol Pot in the 1970s. It opened to the public as a museum and war memorial in 1980.
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is the memorial site of “Security Office 21” (S-21) of Democratic Kampuchea (also known as the Khmer Rouge regime) and located in what was then the abandoned city of Phnom Penh, whose citizens had been evacuated on 17. April 1975.
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The most notorious of the 189 known interrogation centers in Cambodia was S-21, housed in a former school and now called Tuol Sleng for the hill on which it stands. Between 14,000 and 17,000 prisoners were detained there, often in primitive brick cells built in former classrooms.
Tuol Sleng Genocide. Photographs and documents from the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum the former S-21 prison and interrogation centre where it is estimated that over 15, 000 prisoners were held in this former high school. Only a handful of them survived the ordeal.
Feb 9, 2021 · Today, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum hosts a permanent exhibition on the history of the site and serves as a memorial to those who were persecuted and killed under the Khmer Rouge regime. To access the digitized Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archives, click here, or scan the QR code below.
Nov 13, 2022 · UN Secretary-General António Guterres views a wall of photographs of prisoners of the Khmer Rouge regime in one of the rooms of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the site of the infamous Security...
Jun 11, 2015 · 11 June 2015. AFP. By Kirstie Brewer. Phnom Penh. Tuol Sleng is Cambodia's most notorious prison - in the 1970s, at least 12,000 people were tortured there and murdered. Only a handful of...
