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Cambodia: Khmer Rouge cadre eating communally watched by Kang Kek Iew (Comrade Duch), Tuol Sleng (S 21) Prison.

Cambodia: Khmer Rouge cadre eating communally watched by Kang Kek Iew (Comrade Duch), Tuol Sleng (S 21) Prison.

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".