Genocide Museum ( TOUL SLENG )

TOUL SLENG 

The museum is a former high school speaker. In 1975, the school became a torture center for Cambodian torture (មន្ទីរ ស 21), where torture has been extensively abusive to most brutal killers. Nowadays, the Tuol Sleng Museum has many other evidence including skeletons, skulls, and torture equipment.

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum or Toul Sleng Museum is a Phnom Penh museum for memorizing genocide in Cambodia. It was former Soviet Department 21 security guards led by Pol Pot (former name Saloth Sar) when the Khmer Rouge took power on 17 April 1975. S-21 was a detention center, interrogated, brutally tortured, and executed after completing the confession filing. On January 7, 1979, the Party and State organized a collection of exhibits in S21 such as photos, voluntary records, victims' confiscations, torture materials, kites and corpses of 14 victims (including women) 1 person) is a national and international exhibit. The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum opened the door when the People's Revolutionary of Kampuchea opened to trial on the Democratic Kampuchea leaders, Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, and Khieu Samphan (August 19, 1979). The former S-21 is 600m x 400m. It borders north to Norodom Sihanouk Boulevard, opposite Mao Tse Tung Boulevard, opposite Monivong Boulevard, west of Street 163, with a fence Two rows of rows of candles hang on top. Two campuses, Tuol Sleng Primary School and Tuol Svay Prey High School located in the area of ​​the district, they have made a similar zinc-locked enclosure on the other two sides bordering on Street 113 West to Street 131, north to 320, south of Street 350. The post-imaging is done after the launch. Deporting people from Phnom Penh to remote mountainous or rural areas resides in slavery as a prison without walls. All four of the high schools with the classroom rooms were transformed into SJ's small rooms with a length of 2m x 0.80m for each prisoner. In front of a cobblestone tower to prevent victims from suicide by jumping from top to bottom. In 1977 ~ 78 storey buildings were set up as a 6m x 4m room, with a window locked with strong metal frame and covered with glass, preventing the cries of the victims from coming out when tortured. At a time. Building A for detaining cadres accused of anti-revolutionary organization with bedding, blankets, cushions, cats. The iron and bracelet resin for the victim use the condom. Building "C and D" floor below is a small brick room with two floors, a wooden room on the 3rd floor, together.

The bodies of 14 dead bodies were found by the Cambodian National Salvation Front on 7 January 1979. The bodies are swollen, can not be recognized, buried in front of the building. The 14 bodies, including one, were women. The S21 killed all these victims before they escaped.

A wooden pole for students practicing a sports exercise is being used to torture and interrogate the two victims and pull them up and drop down many times until the victims are unconscious. In the spirit, they take the victim into a water jar to restore consciousness and then ask again.

In order to maintain security and internal affairs, S-21 and branches, the Democratic Kampuchea used personnel in 1976 with 1684 personnel divided into 3 units: S21 (Tuol Sleng), S21A (in Takhmao) 21 B (Prey West, Phnom Penh, Khan Dangkor, Kandal Province) is a production facility for S21. These departments and branches are under the protection of the Ministry of Defense and the Pol Pot Party itself, with the Central Standing Committee as an assistant and responsible person named Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch Cheat Khmer, a birthplace in Pou Vesvous commune, Pomap commune. Stoung District, Kompong Thom Province, Occupation Professors. The name of Duch was former Soviet Museum President.

According to a survey of the names of victims who came from 1975 to June 1978.

In 1975 there were 154 people

In 1976 there were 2250 people

In 1977 there were 2350 people

In 1978 there were 5,565 people

This amount does not include the small children they killed. There are about 20,000 people estimated. The duration of detention is two months to four months, and political cases (political prisoners) are detained for up to six or seven months.

Therefore, it is imperative that we protect this place, especially documents and evidence, to emphasize and insist on the repressive tyranny of the Democratic Kampuchea regime and not let the regime return to Cambodian society. All generations of children need to remember this tragic and bitter tragedy, which is a lifetime experience for the future and seek to build a nation by stepping out of this path.

Finally, please donate to the Cambodian people who died during this regime, please travel to the inner peace of mind.