Cambodia Trip - Part 1 - Phnom Penh Genocide Museum
I am making my way back home after a trip to Cambodia and Malaysia. In Cambodia I visited Phnom Penh (the Capital) and Siem Reap in the North West. I have a great deal of photos to share over the next couple of weeks from that trip. The first couple of posts will be about the Tuol Sleng Prison or S21 as it was also known. The prison was formerly a high school until the Khmer Rouge turned it into a prison. When the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975, they arrested, tortured and killed over 17,000 people at this prison alone. Only 7 adults and 5 children survived after being admitted. Those that came through the gates of S21 were interrogated, tortured and then sent out to the killing fields at midnight to be murdered. I personally work with a woman who lost 17 members of her family to the Khmer Rouge. Our tour guide in Siem Reap lost his parents. The following are some images I took at the museum. The rules image gives an insight into what life would have been like for those poor people imprisoned there. The graves image is of 13 graves of people found inside the buildings after the Khmer Rouge abandoned the prison. The leg irons image depicts how a large number of prisoners were joined together to a single bar for control.