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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 Prison)

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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 Prison)

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    1. Royal Palace Phnom Penh – Royal Palace Phnom Penh loop from Sangkat Olympic

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    January 8, 2023

    The highlight was misnamed by someone and calls it the S-21. It stands for security prison and the last two digits of the phone number that was assigned to the prison at the time. The prison was used to torture people to obtain information for Pol Pot's communist leadership. Many people were tortured here and then killed on The Killing Fields. A genocide against their own people carried out by the Khmer Rouge.

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      January 9, 2023

      Under the Khmer Rouge regime, people were imprisoned here in a 2 m² cell and tortured to find information for the communists. They should tell each other if they are spies, for example Americans. They were then killed at the Killing Fields.

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        June 30, 2025

        The prison was located on a former school building. Between 1976 and January 1979, approximately 18,000 people were imprisoned. Only 12 prisoners survived. All others were taken to the Choeung Ek execution site at night and murdered there.

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