Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Street 113, Boeng Keng Kang, Phnom Penh 3, Cambodia

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The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Khmer: សារមន្ទីរឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍ទួលស្លែង) 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 regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. Tuol Sleng (Khmer [tuəl slaeŋ]) means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill". Tuol Sleng was only one of at least 150 execution centers in the country,[1] and as many as 20,000 prisoners there were killed.
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"it reflects a sad period in the history of cambodia.."

"so sad and shocking"

"utterly devestating experience and sickening "tourist" attraction."

"the evidence of the criminal regime is at display for cambodian and visitors."

"no laugh allowed in this site"

"totally depressing."

"hmmm.. nothing much to see here other than empty rooms and beds where pol phet victims were prisoned and tortured to death."

"depressing."

"this was a former school turned prison/torture and detention center."

"its a genocide museum and its quite depressing but in front of it is boddhi tree which is quite a cool place to have cambodian ice coffee"

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"must visit! it reflects a sad period in the history of cambodia"

"must see place, this place must never be forgotten and what the prisoners endured"

"must visit! the evidence of the criminal regime is at display for cambodian and visitors"

"must visit"

"must come! to acknowledge world saddest history"

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