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Prisoners at Tuol Sleng

 

Mug shot exhibited in the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh

 

This museum chronicles "the Cambodian genocide. The site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. From 1976 to 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng [...]" Out of them "there were only twelve known survivors: seven adults and five children." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuol_Sleng_Genocide_Museum

 

"Tuol Sleng was just one of at least 150 torture and execution centers established by the Khmer Rouge..." [ibid.] "The Cambodian genocide [...] was carried out by the Khmer Rouge regime under the leadership of Pol Pot, and it resulted in the deaths of approximately 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly a quarter of Cambodia's 1975 population (c. 7.8 million)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide

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