Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Inward Cambodia

The outside of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Khmer: សារមន្ទីរឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍ទួលស្លែង) is a museum inwards Phnom Penh, the working capital alphabetic quality of Cambodia.

Many of the schoolhouse rooms were divided into unsmooth cells

The site is a onetime high schoolhouse which was used equally the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) past times the Central Khmer Rouge communist government from its rising to ability inwards 1975 to its autumn inwards 1979. Tuol Sleng (Khmer [tuəl slaeŋ]) way "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill".

Cells

Razor wire simply about the perimeter

Inside the museum

Waterboard displayed at Tuol Sleng. Prisoners' legs were shackled to the bar on the right, their wrists were restrained to the brackets on the left in addition to H2O was poured over their appear upwards using the blueish watering can

Photos of the victims of the Central Khmer Rouge work the walls

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Cabinets filled alongside human skulls

Concentration army camp rules

"Skull map

Cambodian schoolhouse students tour the museum