The man you see in the picture is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge Regime and 1 of 7 survivors out of 20,000 people murdered at Tuol Slong S-21 Prison. . . In 1975 the Khmer Rouge stormed into Phnom Penh and evacuated everyone from the city telling them that the US was going to bomb the area and they would be allowed back in within 3 days, this never happened! what began was over 3 years of slavery, murder, torture, hunger and genocide. The people of Cambodia were stripped of their identities, personal belongings, seperated from thier families and were told not to love! so that all people of Cambodia would be the same, ancient people and peasants. Today we visited Tuol Slong Prison (S-21) and The Killing Fields. Tuol Slong prison was a school
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