Tuoi Sieng Genocide Museum

The Tuoi Sieng Genocide Museum is located in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Formerly the Chao Ponhea Yat High School, it was converted into a prison and interrogation centre in August 1975 four months after the Khmer Rouge won the civil war. Uncovered by the invading Vietnamese army in 1979, the prison was reopened by the government in 1980 as a historical museum memorializing the actions of the Khmer Rouge regime. Several rooms of the museum are lined, from floor to ceiling, with black and white photographs of some of the estimated 20,000 prisoners who passed through the prison.Other rooms contain only a rusting iron bedframe. Other rooms preserve leg-irons and instruments of torture. The skulls of some victims are also on display in shelves in the museum. Tourists visit to learn more about the Khmer Rouge regime.

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Done by: Ka Yi

Torture chamber inside the museum

Tuol Sleng Museum, known as the Museum of Genocidal Crimes was used by the Khmer Rouge as a detention and torture center in the late 1970s. Today the building houses exhibits, paintings and photographs of many of the victims. Visitors can see the crude cells built in the classrooms and the torture devices used to extract confessions in Stalinesque purges of the regime. Open daily from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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by: Marriz