S21 Genocide Museum (TUOL SLENG)

Today we went to the Tuol Sleng Genocide museum (S21) in Phnom Penh to learn about the torture that happened during the Khmer Rouge regime.
To enter the museum grounds you have to either pay $5 for an unguided tour or $8 for an audio tour which is definitely worth ! You'll be provided with so much information that you just wouldn't discover without listening to the audio. You'll be given a leaflet which doubles as a map and a guide for where all of the different audio guide locations are, I'll post a picture of it below.

The S21 prison was actually and old school which was transformed into a home for the torture to happen behind closed doors without anybody really knowing. Between 12,000 and 20,000 people were imprisoned here and there are only 12 known survivors.

During the tour throughout the prison there were many of the old cells and torture equipment's were still in tact ! With the audio alongside the physical items still remaining the place really hit home and made you imagine what it must have been like to have been tortured here, until you confessed what the regime wanted the hear and then killed once you were no use to them.

Tomorrow we are going to be going to the killing fields and I'll be making another post about that to share my feelings on it.

Thanks for reading,
Ben

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