Explore Phnom Penh’s dark history with a tour of the Genocide Museum and Killing Fields. Discover the harrowing stories of survival and loss.
Explore Phnom Penh’s dark history with a tour of the Genocide Museum and Killing Fields. Discover the harrowing stories of survival and loss.
- Royal Palace - This is a complex of buildings that serves as the official residence of the King of Cambodia. Its full name in Khmer is Preah Barom Reacheaveang Chaktomuk Serey Mongko.
- Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - This museum documents the Cambodian genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, it was formerly a secondary school that the Khmer Rouge regime…
- Royal Palace - This is a complex of buildings that serves as the official residence of the King of Cambodia. Its full name in Khmer is Preah Barom Reacheaveang Chaktomuk Serey Mongko.
- Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - This museum documents the Cambodian genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, it was formerly a secondary school that the Khmer Rouge regime used as Security Prison 21 from 1975 until their fall in 1979.
- Choeung Ek Genocidal Center - Once an orchard in Dangkao, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, this site was used as a Killing Field by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979 during the Cambodian genocide. Located about 17 kilometers south of the city center, it was connected to the Tuol Sleng detention center.
- Wat Phnom Daun Penh - This is a Buddhist temple.
- National Museum of Cambodia - As the largest museum of cultural history in Cambodia, it is the country’s premier historical and archaeological museum.
- English-speaking Guide
- Soda
- Cool Water
- Minivan
- English-speaking Guide
- Soda
- Cool Water
- Minivan
- Royal Palace of Cambodia - $10/each
- National Museum of Cambodia - $10/each
- Wat Phnom - $1/each
- Choeung Ek - $3/each
- Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - $5/each
- Royal Palace of Cambodia - $10/each
- National Museum of Cambodia - $10/each
- Wat Phnom - $1/each
- Choeung Ek - $3/each
- Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - $5/each
Genocide Museum (S-21) served as the central hub of a vast prison system throughout the country and was used throughout the period as a secret facility for the detention, interrogation, torture, and extermination of those deemed “political enemies” of the regime. Due to a policy of guilt-by-association, at times whole families were detained at the…
Genocide Museum (S-21) served as the central hub of a vast prison system throughout the country and was used throughout the period as a secret facility for the detention, interrogation, torture, and extermination of those deemed “political enemies” of the regime. Due to a policy of guilt-by-association, at times whole families were detained at the center. Very few inmates were released from the prison during the years 1975 and 1979. Only 12 former inmates survived the opening of S-21 when Phnom Penh was liberated. Four of them were children. Killing Field between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge in perpetrating the Cambodian genocide. Situated about 17 kilometers (11 mi) south of the city center, it was attached to the Tuol Sleng detention center. The bodies of 8,895 victims were exhumed from the site after the fall of the Rouge, who would have been executed there—typically with pickaxes to conserve bullets—before being buried in mass graves.
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