Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the former security office 21 during the Khmer Rouge regime was created with the orders of Pol Pot (The 'hitler' of Cambodia), in April 17, 1975. This place was used in the past for dentention, interrogation, inhuman torture, and killing. Which now is a museum thats displays to us the potographs, films, prisoner confession archives, torture tools, shackles, and the fourteen victim corpses.
The quiet corridors of the classrooms that were turned into prisons used for brutal torture.
This is one of the classrooms that were turned into torture chambers. The weapons and chains were used to interrogate and torture the prisoners until they confessed things they did not commit. Some were chained to the bed till starvation.
The picture displays some of the methods that were used to torture the prisoners.
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum can be found at:
Phnom Penh city Kingdom of cambodia,
Sangkat Beoung Keng Kang III,
Khan Charmkarmorn, st 113.
You may contact the museum if any enquiries :
Email : toulslengmuseum@online.com.kh
Tel : (+855) 023 216 045
The genocide Museum left a deep impression that will be engraved onto my heart for a long time. As I walked along to quiet corridors of the classrooms, and peered into the windows of the torture chamber, a sense of sorrow filled me. Standing in the classrooms that many were tortured and killed in the past made me imagine how the prisoners struggled to live, moaning and crying for the lives to be spared...
XuanYing.
As I walked through the whole gallery looking at the pictures of the torturing and the killing of the prisoners it made me realise I am fortunate to live in Singapore. If not for this I would have never realise that I am very lucky to be a Singaporean. It was an eye-opening experience for me. I feel that everyone should have a chance to experience what I had experienced.
Hibatullah Hamzah.
I feel so bad for these people who have suffered during the Khmer Rouge Regime. The Pol Pot ruling was inhumane,cold and heartless. They bring much suffering to innocent lives and this is only one of the places which all these suffering took place. Since then, sense of hatred to the Khmer Rouge fills my heart. I wish the Khmer Rouge official gets heavy punishment for what they have done.
Fitri Danial.
