The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum was once a happy learning place for it was called the Tuol Prey High School. When Pol Pot’s regime escalated they turned this place into a prison which is known as the Security Prison 21 (S-21), the largest detention and torture centre in the country from 1975 to 1978. More than 17,000 people were detained here before some of them were taken to the killing fields of Choeung Ek. This place serves as a testament into the crime of the Khmer Rouge.
Pictures of each of the prisoners as well as when they were killed were meticulously kept. As barbaric as it sounds it is the truth. An average of 100 people were killed every single day and this stopped in the early 1979 when the Vietnamese army liberated Phnom Penh.
Like the Choeung Ek Killing Fields Museum this place is profoundly depressing and I myself cannot believe that I am seeing the actual artifacts of what seemed to be the most gruesome event in the history of Cambodia. I love history a lot but seeing this makes me what to study and travel more to different places which truly has a story in it. Among the place which I have been to I might say that Phnom Penh gives the real deal of what history is. It might be saddening but they display their history for they have survived.
Entrance fee:
$4.00 per person
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| Entrance to the Museum |
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| Prisoners were tied and left dead here |
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| Prisoners of Prison Security 21 |
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| I didn’t go up any further because it really is a very saddening place |
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| To prove that they killed the prisoners they would take a picture and show this to Pol Pot or the high ranking officer. |
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| A prison that gives us more story for it shows and depicts what really happened |
