14/09/06 Phnom Penh The Cambodian Genocide of the 70's was a harrowing time for the Cambodian people and no doubt any other sentient beings with any inkling as to what was happening within Cambodian borders. Tuol Sleng (http://www.tuolsleng.com/) codenamed S-21 was a school that Pol Pot turned into a prison. It now serves as a museum and is left very much how it was found with original cells left with beds, chains and objects of torture as the fleeing Khmer Rouge fled form the approaching Vietnamese army. Every one of the 17,000 people that passed through the prison had their photograph taken and recorded. Now hundreds and hundreds of these photographs of the innocent men, woman and children are displayed on huge boards in the old school classrooms. Looking closely at their faces, some appear slightly
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