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  • Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

    former high school turned into a prison by the Khmer Rouge

    Location: 

    St 113, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

    Duration: 

    Monday, July 3, 2017

    Personal highlights

    1. Tuol Sleng: former high school turned into a prison by the Khmer Rouge
    2. Genocide Museum: visited by many foreigners but not enough locals!
    3. Cambodian Genocide: world's worst genocide after WW2 and the USSR
    4. Security Prison 21: classrooms turned into cells to host dozens of people
    5. Survivors: out of 20,000 prisoners there are only 7 known survivors

    Image sources

    1. Survivor of the Genocide
    2. Barbwired school
    3. Names of the victims
    4. Hallway to the classrooms
    5. Number of the prisons