Toul Sleng Musem

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is situated on the site of a former secondary school named Chao Ponhea Yat later Tuol Svay Prey High School and the adjoining primaryschool “Tuol Sleng”. The schools were built in the 1960s as part of a wave of new school buildings.. 

In June 1976, , the six buildings were converted into a prison and interrogation centre. Before other houses in the district had been used as temporarily prisons. Tuol Sleng is believed as to have been the mayor prison of many hundreds of interrogation centres across “Democratic Kampuchea” . 

The complex was renamed “Security Office 21” or S-21 and transformed with electrified barbed wire, iron bars and torture chambers. Of the estimated 17,000 to 20,000 people that were imprisoned in S-21 the exact number of survivors is still unknown but 7 men and 4 children were found alive and photographed just after the fall of Democratic Kampuchea. Recent researches claim a higher number of survivors as the former Khmer Rouge staff keeps saying that no prisoner entering S-21 facilities would go out alive.

A few days after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, S-21 was discovered by a Vietnamese combat photographer and his colleagues. They took the photos which are shown in building A on the ground floor. Soon after the discovery the place was shown to invited groups and was opened for public in 1979 by the government of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea as a historical museum and named “Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum”. Since then it is memorialising the mass crimes of the Khmer Rouge regime.

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The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum: UNESCO Memory of the World Program and the Reorganization of the Museum
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/museums/museum-projects/archive/tuol-sleng/

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 prisoners survived but now, 40 years after Pol Pot took control of the country, two of them return to the cells every day to remind people what happened.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33096971

Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/cambodia/phnom-penh/attractions/tuol-sleng-museum-of-genocidal-crimes/a/poi-sig/441640/355881

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuol_Sleng_Genocide_Museum

This former torture and detention center is now a museum dedicated to the victims of the Khmer Rouge.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g293940-d324063-Reviews-Tuol_Sleng_Genocide_Museum-Phnom_Penh.html