Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia

The exterior of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh

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

Many of the school rooms were divided into crude cells

The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge communist regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. Tuol Sleng (Khmer [tuəl slaeŋ]) means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill".

Cells

Razor wire around 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 and water was poured over their face using the blue watering can

Photos of the victims of the Khmer Rouge line the walls

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Cabinets filled with human skulls

Concentration camp rules

"Skull map

Cambodian school students tour the museum

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