Old post from December 2012
On the fifth day of my visit to Cambodia, we had wanted to go somewhere lighthearted after visiting the Killing Fields. However, there was a miscommunication between us and the tuk-tuk driver and we ended up at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. It was an unappealing and sinister looking place, so I got off with great reluctance.
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| Building A |
Tuol Sleng was a high school before it was turned into a prison called S21 for torture and interrogation by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot in the late 70’s, claiming the lives of about 17,000 victims. Today, it is a museum and despite its recent nightmarish history, there are in fact people living nearby.
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| Classrooms were used for torture and interrogation |
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| Clothes and skulls left behind by victims |
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| Cells |
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| Electrified barbed wires to prevent escape |
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| Among about 17,000 victims, many were kids |
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| Pull up bar used for torture |
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| The cruelty |
The effects of this tragedy still linger, such as in the form of poverty. Still, life goes on in its aftermath. God bless the kind and hardworking people of Cambodia.
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