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The Killing Fields & Tuol Sleng

Cambodia's political history has been extremely ugly. The very word Cambodia came to be associated with atrocities, poverty and refugees. In 1975 Tuol Svay Prey High School was taken over by Pol Pot's security forces and turned into a prison known as Security Prison 21 (S-21). It soon became the largest centre of detention and torture in the country. Between 1975 and 1978 about 17.000 thousand men, women and children who had been detained and tortured at S-21 were transported to the extermination camp of Choeung Ek, which later became known as The Killing Fields. Fragments of human bone and bits of cloth, scattered around the graves, conjure up images of humanity at its worst.

 Photographs of prisoners covering the walls from floor to ceiling in Tuol Sleng (S-21).Skulls inside the memorial stupa at Choeung Ek, the Killing Fields.Fragments of human bone and bits of cloth scattered around the graves at Choeung Ek, the Killing Fields.One of the many mass graves at Choeung Ek, the Killing Fields.The extermination camp of Choeung Ek, which later became known as The Killing Fields.The memorial stupa at Choeung Ek, the Killing Fields, holds more than 8000 skulls.Fragments of human bone scattered around the graves at Choeng Ek, the Killing Fields.Tuol Sleng, Security Prison 21 (S-21).Photographs of prisoners covering the walls from floor to ceiling in Tuol Sleng (S-21).

 
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