Cambodia: Prisoners' cells in the Khmer Rouge Security Prison S-21 (S-21), now the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crime, Phnom Penh

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge communist regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. Tuol Sleng means 'Hill of the Poisonous Trees' or 'Strychnine Hill'.

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David Henley

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Pictures From Asia