Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sights
2
Banquet Hall
C3
3
Building with Elephant Dock
B2
4
East Gate
D3
C3
6
King's Residence
B2
7
Mondap
C3
C3
C4
10
Phnom Mondap
C3
D3
D3
C3
C4
C4
16
Throne Hall
B2
Tuol Sleng Museum
MUSEUM
(cnr St 113 & 350; admission/guide US$2/6; 7am-5.30pm)
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). This soon became the largest centre of detention and torture in the coun-
try. Between 1975 and 1978 more than 17,000 people held at S-21 were taken to the
killing fields of Choeung Ek.
S-21 has been turned into the Tuol Sleng Museum, which serves as a testament to the
crimes of the Khmer Rouge.
Like the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge leaders were meticulous in keeping records of their
barbarism. Each prisoner who passed through S-21 was photographed, sometimes before
and after torture. The museum displays include room after room of harrowing black-and-
white photographs; virtually all of the men, women and children pictured were later
killed. You can tell which year a picture was taken by the style of number-board that ap-
pears on the prisoner's chest. Several foreigners from Australia, New Zealand and the
