Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - Cambodia

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum which was an erstwhile High school was used for all the barbaric activities during the Khmer Rouge reign and was often termed as Security Prison 21 or S-21. Very unfortunately the school site was converted in to an execution centre out of the 150 execution centres around Cambodia. Close to 20,000 Cambodian prisoners were barbarically killed between  1975 to 1979.

What can you find there?

Ø  The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum will only fill one with remorse and sorrowful seeing the history of S-21

Ø  Every class room has been converted into a cell with barbed wires and windows almost sealed with iron bars. Every room has a story to narrate of the pitiful conditions the prisoners were dragged to death

Ø  One would get a first-hand information on how the Khmer Rouge killed almost one third of the Cambodian population in as little as four year of their reign.

Ø  This though-provoking tour to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum will leave you pondering on how much pain and horror the Cambodians have faced.

More information about Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Ø  Till around September 2011, there were three survivors of the S-21 prison, who were put on mercy because of their skills used by the Khmer government.

Ø  A Vietnamese combat photographer in 1979  was the first person to discover and reveal the horrific and dreadful events held in S21.

Working hours:

Seven days in a week from 8.00am to 5.00pm

Entry fee:

The admission fee is US$2 and US$3 for the audio guide