via Phnom Penh Post, 17 September 2023: The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh serves as a focal point for remembering the Khmer Rouge era, complemented by 81 memorial stupas across Cambodia that preserve the remains and stories of the victims.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, located in the heart of Phnom Penh, is Cambodia’s main memorial site of the Khmer Rouge interrogation and detention centre. Formerly a secondary school-turned-Security Prison 21 (S-21) after the fall of Phnom Penh in April 1975, Tuol Sleng was one of the largest torture and execution sites in the country during the Pol Pot’s “reign of terror”.
In addition to this prominent museum, there are 81 memorial sites (stupas) across the Kingdom’s provinces that contain the bones and other remains of the victims.
The haunting memories of the iron beds, shackles and the lingering scent of blood remain etched in the minds of those who have visited the museum, to this very day.
Source: Tuol Sleng, 81 memorial sites recount tragic past | Phnom Penh Post
