Friday, October 22, 2010

S21 Tuol Sleng Prison

After the killing fields we headed to the S21 Tuol Sleng Prison which many of the people that lay in the ground came from here.

The first thing you are greeted with in the museum is a picture of people rejoicing when in the streets of Phnom Penh when the Kmer Rogue "Liberated" the city, however it wasn't long before the Kmer Rogue drove everyone from the city out to the country for it's sadistic social reform, a city of 3 million people was dwarfed to 50,000 people.

It really is a morbid place, the cells contain pictures of a tortured dead person which the Kmer Rogue took themselves and cells the size of shoe boxes which pople were posing in for pictures as if they were standing in Alcatraz, once again I did not take any pictures in respect to the people who perished here.

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