Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
Cambodian National Museum
Former Security Prison 21 by the Santebal
The exterior of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, 2006
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is located in Cambodia
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
Location of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum within Cambodia
Coordinates11°32′58″N 104°55′04″E / 11.54944°N 104.91778°E / 11.54944; 104.91778
Other namesS-21
Known forInternment, interrogation, extermination and human experimentation camp used by the Khmer Rouge
LocationSt.113, Boeung Keng Kang III, Khan Boeng Keng Kang, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Operated byKhmer Rouge
CommandantKang Kek Iew
Original useHigh school
OperationalS-21 as institution = August 1975, The buildings of the former high school = beginning 1976[1]
Number of inmates18,145 prisoners, probably more
Killed18,133 (source: ECCC list of the inmates by the co-prosecutors in Case 001/01)
Liberated byPeople's Army of Vietnam
Notable inmatesBou Meng, Chum Mey, and Vann Nath
Websitetuolsleng.gov.kh

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Khmer: សារមន្ទីរឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍ទួលស្លែង, romanizedSaromontir Ukredth Kamm Braly Pouchsasa Tuol Sleng), or simply Tuol Sleng (Khmer: ទួលស្លែង, Tuŏl Slêng [tuəl slaeŋ]; lit. "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill"), is a museum chronicling the Cambodian genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, the site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 (S-21; Khmer: មន្ទីរស-២១) by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until its fall in 1979. From 1976 to 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng and it was one of between 150 and 196 torture and execution centers established by the Khmer Rouge and the secret police known as the Santebal (literally "keeper of peace").[2] On 26 July 2010, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia convicted the prison's chief, Kang Kek Iew, for crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.[3] He died on 2 September 2020 while serving a life sentence.[4]

  1. ^ ECCC. Case 001/01.
  2. ^ Locard, Henri, State Violence in Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979) and Retribution (1979–2004) Archived 2013-10-30 at the Wayback Machine, European Review of History, Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2005, pp.121–143.
  3. ^ "Case 001 | Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)". Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia. Archived from the original on December 23, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  4. ^ "Cambodia genocide: Khmer Rouge prison chief Comrade Duch dies". BBC News. 2 September 2020.

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