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[ooaworld]

Tuol Sleng and Killing Fields, Phnom Penh Cambodia, Abstract Texture Photos

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[trunktravel]

All About Tuol Sleng & The Killing Fields

Cambodia has a history unlike any other country in South East Asia, one that is filled with atrocities, pain, and genocide. However, this is often forgotten about or overlooked, and whilst being so fascinating, so many people have not heard about what took place only 40 years ago. So why is that?

In 1975 the Khmer Rouge swept across the country, declaring their opposition towards Cambodia’s involvement in the Vietnam War, destroying much of what was in their wake. The Khmer Rouge, led by the now infamous Pol Pot, was essentially a communist regime, one that spread nothing but terror and chaos throughout Cambodia for four years, from their rise to power in April 1975 until they were overthrown in January 1979. It is estimated that during this time one third of the Cambodian population was wiped out by their own people, whether it was from exhaustion and malnourishment as they worked in the fields, killed in interrogations, or simply murdered for baring any kind of intelligence beyond what was deemed acceptable, such as wearing glasses, being a teacher or doctor, or speaking a foreign language.

Declaring that the nation would start again at "Year Zero", Pol Pot isolated his people from the rest of the world and set about emptying the cities, abolishing money, private property and religion, and setting up rural collectives.

In Phnom Penh stands two main monuments that proudly showcase the memory of what happened in Cambodia and those who’s lives were lost. Cambodia has not only been able to recover but has grown and developed since those years, but that development came at the price of the peaceful way of life that used to reign in Cambodia. Whilst this may be the case, and the rate of Cambodia’s growth has been exponential since the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by invading Vietnamese troupes, the memory of the atrocities that took place here are still fresh in the minds of many of the people that still live here.

Hundreds of thousands of the educated middle-classes were tortured and executed in special centers. The most notorious of these centers was Tuol Sleng in the capital city of Phnom Penh, often nicknamed S21 Prison, was once a school, but during the Khmer Rouge Regime this school was turned into a prison where ‘enemies’ of the Khmer Rouge were kept, tortured, interrogated and killed. It is estimated that over the four years of the Khmer Rouge Regime as many as 17,000 men, women, and children were kept imprisoned here.

To this day Tuol Sleng still stands, now no longer a prison, but a monument and dedication to those who lost their lives there, including a small amount of foreigners who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is rumored that during their stay at Tuol Sleng many prisoners were forced into confessing to crimes that they had not committed, including being international spies or selling information to governments outside of Cambodia, pushed to this point through torture and threats. The faces of those that were imprisoned at S21, some only children themselves, still hang on the walls, framed for guests and visitors to see, haunting the halls of the building that once kept them captive. 

Due to a policy of guilt-by-association, at times whole families were detained at the center. Very few inmates were released out of the prison between the years of 1975 and 1979. Only 12 former inmates survived the opening of S-21 when Phnom Penh was liberated. Four of them were children. These are often referred to as ‘the lucky ones’.

Probably the most heartbreaking monument to the Khmer Rouge Regime stands in the form of the Killing Fields, located just outside of Phnom Penh Capital. Whilst only one of hundreds of Killing Fields across the country, Choeung Ek, which sits on the outskirts of the city, was by far the largest and most terrifying of them all. Today it serves as a memory to those that lost their lives there - and those that survived - and is used as an educational tool to ensure that history never repeats itself again. 

Those sent to Choeung Ek made the 17km journey crammed into the back of trucks. Once there, many were blindfolded and, not wanting to waste bullets, soldiers smashed spades into their heads before pushing them into pits containing the dead bodies of thousands. It is thought that about 17,000 men, women, and children were executed at the site.

In 1980, the remains of almost 9,000 people were exhumed from the mass graves that litter the former orchard. Many of these skulls now sit in a memorial stupa that was created in 1988 and forms the centerpiece of the site, serving as a reminder of the bitter past and helping to ensure the lives lost are never forgotten.

Today, it’s hard to imagine the former orchard is a place that harbors such horror. Birdsong rises from the trees, the gentle breeze wafts through manicured fields, flowers bloom, shimmering paddies surround the site and life goes on. Threaded bracelets litter the site, from being hung on plants and posts that surround the locations that once marked mass-graves, to being strung through the trees where children were once killed - a small offering of remembrance and solidarity from visitors and guests who pass through to pay their respects.

It seems almost immoral that such suffering has been almost completely forgotten by the rest of the world. But in Cambodia life goes on, improving day by day, with the unspoken promise that such horrors and atrocities will never happen again in the Kingdom of Wonder.

[travelwithflere]

Not all museum moments are happy. But visits to memorial museums are important acts of remembrance. Caged busts of Pol Pot next to rows of shackles at S-21, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A secondary school used as Security Prison 21 (S-21) where an estimated 20,000 people were tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge regime between 1975 and 1979. Watercolor, October 2007. #tuolsleng #cambodia #polpot #tuolslenggenocidemuseum #phnompenh #genocide #khmerrouge #genocidemuseum #memorialmuseum #museumweek #museumweek2020 #MuseumMomentsMW #aquarelle #watercolor #fredericlere (at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CALCtqwntUc/?igshid=15u1uhae5ihv4

[travelerni]

This school was converted into a prison/torture facility in 1976 during the Cambodian Genocide. Over 20,000 people were tortured here and - for almost all - eventually killed. This facility was known as s21 and was only one of over 150 such facilities set up during the genocide. This was a very difficult place to visit but I believe it is important to learn about and if you travel to Cambodia highly recommend you visit the Tuol Sleng museum. In order to be polite I have chosen a photo that is not too graphic. If you would like to see more please see the Tuol Sleng video on my YouTube channel - Traveler Ni. #travel #photooftheday #followme #picoftheday #thetravelerni #travelerni #travellerni #cambodiangenocide #tuolsleng #cambodia #phnompehn #genocide https://www.instagram.com/p/B9bv3x8FVAu/?igshid=16c06qz2t1wmg

[hearourstories]

“You will get many lashes of electric wire” – Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Tour

Phnom Penh, Cambodia – ကေမာၻဒီးယားခရီးစဥ္ကို Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (ယခင္ security prison S-21) နဲ႔စလိုက္တာ ခရီးစဥ္ဆုံးတဲ့အထိ ေခါင္းေတြေနာက္ၿပီး ေနလို႔မေကာင္းေတာ့။ ၁၉၇၆ ကစလို႔ ၁၉၇၉အထိ ပုံပါအေဆာက္အဦးက secondary ေက်ာင္းအျဖစ္ကေန ေထာင္အသြင္အေျပာင္းခံရၿပီးေနာက္ပိုင္း ဒီေက်ာင္းဝန္းေလးထဲ အ႐ုပ္ဆိုးဆုံးသမိုင္းတြင္ေစခဲ့တဲ့ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ ႐ိုက္ႏွက္ ေမးျမန္းစစ္ေဆးမႈေတြ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈေတြ လူ၂၀၀၀၀ အထက္ အေပၚ အာဏာရွင္က က်ဴးလြန္��ဲ့ပါတယ္။

လွ်ပ္စီးေရွာ့ေပးၿပီးတစ္မ်ိဳး လက္နက္စုံေတြနဲ႔ တစ္ဖုံ ညဥ္းပန္းႏွိပ္စက္႐ုံမက ခႏၶာကိုယ္ကို ေစာက္ထိုးႀကိဳးဆြဲ ေခါင္းကို မစင္တဲ့ေရအိုးထဲႏွစ္ထည့္ပါေသးတယ္။ အမ်ိဳးသမီး/သား ကေလးမေ႐ြး ေရေႏြးပူေလာင္းတာ မစင္အညစ္အေၾကးေတြကို လွ်ာနဲ႔ လ်က္ခိုင္းတာ၊ အခ်ဳပ္သားေတြအေပၚ စမ္းသပ္မူျပဳလုပ္တာေတြပါပါတယ္။ နိပ္စက္တဲ့ဒဏ္မခံႏိုင္လို႔ မိမိကိုယ္ကိုအဆုံးစီရင္တာ၊ တိုက္အျမင့္ေပၚကေန ခုန္ခ်တာအပါအဝင္ လုပ္ၾကလာလို႔ သံဆူးႀကိဳးေတြနဲ႔ ကာၿပီးသံတိုင္ေတြျပတင္းေပါက္တိုင္းမွာတပ္၊ မိမိဘာသာ အဆုံးမစီရင္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ interrogators ေတြက တင္းတင္းၾကပ္ၾကပ္ ညဥ္းပန္းစစ္ေဆးပါတယ္။ ေထာင္ဝန္ထမ္းေတြလည္း တင္းၾကပ္တဲ့စည္းကမ္းမလိုက္နာႏိုင္ခဲ့ရင္ ေထာင္သားဘဝေရာက္ၿပီး အႏွိပ္စက္ခံရပါေသးတယ္။

ဒီျဖစ္စဥ္ေတြအားလုံးကို audio tape နဲ႔ museum ကိုပတ္ၾကည့္ၿပီး ေလ့လာလို႔ရပါတယ္။ စာေရးသူကေတာ့ museum တစ္ပတ္မျပည့္မီ ႏွလုံးတုန္လာၿပီး စိတ္ေတြမခိုင္ေတာ့။ ခႏၶာကိုယ္တစ္ခုလုံး ပစ္လဲခ်င္တဲ့စိတ္ကို မနည္းထိန္းခဲ့ရတယ္။ နာဇီ လူမ်ိဳးတုန္းသတ္ျဖတ္မူကို လူတိုင္းလိုလိုသိၾကေပမယ့္ ကေမာၻဒီးယား ျဖစ္စဥ္ကလည္း ေျခာက္ျခားစရာေကာင္းၿပီး သမိုင္းဆိုးႀကီးတစ္ခုဆိုတာ ျငင္းမရပါဘူး။

ေအာက္ကစည္းကမ္း၁၀ခ်က္က ေထာင္သားေတြကို စစ္ေဆးတဲ့အခါ သုံးတဲ့ regulation ပါ။

1. You must answer accordingly to my question. Don't turn them away. 2. Don't try to hide the facts by making pretexts this and that, you are strictly prohibited to contest me. 3. Don't be a fool for you are a chap who dare to thwart the revolution. 4. You must immediately answer my questions without wasting time to reflect. 5. Don't tell me either about your immoralities or the essence of the revolution. 6. While getting lashes or electrification you must not cry at all. 7. Do nothing, sit still and wait for my orders. If there is no order, keep quiet. When I ask you to do something, you must do it right away without protesting. 8. Don't make pretext about Kampuchea Krom in order to hide your secret or traitor. 9. If you don't follow all the above rules, you shall get many lashes of electric wire. 10. If you disobey any point of my regulations you shall get either ten lashes or five shocks of electric discharge

[felixsodela]

The buildings at Tuol Sleng are preserved, some rooms as they were left when the Khmer Rouge were driven out in 1979. The regime kept extensive records, including thousands of photographs. Several rooms of the museum are now lined, floor to ceiling, with black and white photographs of some of the estimated 20,000 prisoners who passed through the prison. . #tuolsleng #tuolslenggenocidemuseum #cambodia #genocide #phnompenh #photo #photography #travelphotography #travellingpinoy #pinoy #pinoytravel #pinoytraveler #filipino #filipinotravel #filipinotraveler #wander #wanderer #wanderlust #followforfollowback #followtofollow #follow4followback #igers #igersCambodia (at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bypnjm8A5Z_/?igshid=7ehzvjhvc0nd

[jamessebright]

Viewed from a torture cell, a taxi driver waits outside Tuol Sleng (S-21) Genocide Museum. Phnom Penh. Tuol Sleng (also known as Security Prison 21 or S-21), formerly a high school, was one of over 150 centres set up by the Khmer Rouge to torture and murder opponents to Pol Pot's Organisation. Out of an estimated 17,000 people imprisoned and tortured at Tuol Sleng, there are only seven known survivors. S-21 is now a key tourist attraction in the city. #cambodia #phnompenh #s21 #tuolsleng #tuolslenggenocidemuseum #genocide #documentary #documentaryphotographer #documentaryphotography #jamessebright #reportage #reportagephotographer #khmerrouge #fujifilm #fujifilmasia #xpro2 (at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum)

[mickyates]

Youk Chhang, Director of the Documentary Center of Cambodian (DC-Cam) and founder of Sleuk Rith Institute for Genocide Studies showed me one of the Rolleiflex cameras used to take the Khmer Rouge Tuol Sleng ‘mug shots’ in 1975-1979. . As noted in Michelle Caswell’s book, Archiving the Unspeakable, once a photograph was taken, the inexorable bureaucratic process of torture, confession and execution took place. . I picked up the camera, and pondered. How extraordinary to hold it, an instrument of death – not just philosophically but practically. It was a central part of the apparatus of killing. . #leicaimages #Leica #leicacamera #leica_world @leica_fotografie_international #lfiinternational . #unfinished #stories #cambodia #tuolsleng #mugshots #bureaucracy #documentary #rolleiflex #genocide #khmerrouge #history #camera #archive #forgotten #politics # #phnompenh #killingfields #dccam #sleukrith . #falmouth #falmouthflexible #MA @iop_falmouth @falmouthflexiblephoto #masters #mastersdegree #falmouthflexiblephoto (at Phnom Penh) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp35vJcgbEY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uxa1bw8o8bu6

[forcommunities]

#TuolSleng #genocidemuseumcambodia 🙏 May genocide (everywhere!) cease and never happen again. 🎍 (at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoK9V77BZ5Z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ua69k7aoty3c

[thebumgun]

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. Otherwise known as S-21. Had to spend a few quiet moments to contemplate their suffering. The concrete lines around me were the walls. I could barely fit in sat against the wall. My heart goes to everyone affected by the Khmer Rouge. . #tuolslenggenocidemuseum #tuolsleng #genocide (at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum)

[eugenialupee02]

The buildings are silent witnesses to things too horrible for spoken words. But it stands tall in the midst of the ever-changing society, constantly striving for the betterness of people - of humanity, as a reminder of what has passed. As a lesson for generations to come. No matter how dark and desolate the time, hope, love, humanity, will prevail. #tuolsleng #tuolslenggenocidemuseum #genocidemuseum #loopylupeeontheroad #throwback #memorial #history #PhnomPenh #Cambodia (at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum)

[kerunderi]

Heartbroken yet inspired by the strength of the Cambodians #phnompenh #cambodia #tuolsleng #killingfields #culture #people #strength #resilience #travel #travelling #photography #adventure #explore #experience #backpacking #southeastasia #solo #instatravel #wanderlust #appreciationpost #natgeotravel #condenastetraveller #photooftheday #travelgram (at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum)

[ramblinmanandwife-blog]

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness” ~Elie Wiesel Today was a heavy one—we toured the killing fields of Choeung Ek and the S-21 prison at Tuol Sleng. Located near Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh, these sites were used by Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge regime to exterminate tens of thousands of Cambodian people during the late 1970’s. Similar to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, these stand as chilling reminders of the atrocities humans are capable of and, God-willing, impedances to any future genocides . . . #ramblinmanandwife #cheoungek #cheoungekgenocidalcenter #cheoungekkillingfields #khmerrouge #cambodia #phnompenh #tuolslenggenocidemuseum #tuolslengprison #s21prison #tuolsleng #travel #genocide #nomoregenocide #makepeacenotwar #traveltheworld #seetheworld #aroundtheworld #travelphotography #photography #realphotography #nomad #wanderlust #canon #canonphotography #nofilter (at Choeung Ek)

[saintlycvd]

The things We never learn about in #history books. #TuolSlengGenocideMuseum #S21 #TuolSleng #genocide #museum #PhnomPenh #Cambodia #PolPot #PolPotRegime (at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum)

[noahgoesglobal]

The message Noah wrote on the Tuol Sleng S21 prison memorial wall. 😢😢 ‭‭#passportready #travelblogger #wanderlust #ilovetravel #writetotravel #aroundtheworld #etihad #travel #travelwithkids #globaldegree #passportrequest  #rickshawtravel  #kids #traveller #traveltheworld  #planetearth  #ontour @rickshaw_travel #tuolsleng #prison #genocide #cambodia #phnompenh #atrocity (at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Cambodia)

[felixsodela]

Edit The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, chronicling the Cambodian genocide. The site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. From 1976 to 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng (the real number is unknown). Tuol Sleng means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill". Tuol Sleng was just one of at least 150 torture and execution centers established by the Khmer Rouge, though other sources put the figure at 196 prison centers. On July 26, 2010, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia convicted the chief of Tuol Sleng Prison, Kang Kek Iew, (alias Duch) for crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and sentenced him to life imprisonment. . #cambodia #phnompenh #tuolsleng #tuolslenggenocidemuseum #igers #followforfollowback #followtofollow #follow4followback #travel #photography #travelphotography #travellingpinoy #pinoy #pinoytravel #pinoytraveler #filipino #filipinotravel #filipinotraveler #wanderlust #wanderer #wander #museum (at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BypmkxTgwvo/?igshid=13w7vhns7y22x