Explore Cambodia’s history with a half-day tour of the Genocide Museum and Killing Field. Discover the harrowing past and stories of survival.
Explore Cambodia’s history with a half-day tour of the Genocide Museum and Killing Field. Discover the harrowing past and stories of survival.
- Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - 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…
- Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - 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.
- Choeung Ek Genocidal Center - .The Killing Fields (Khmer: វាលពិឃាត, Khmer pronunciation: [ʋiəl pikʰiət]) are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than 1,000,000 people were killed and buried by the Communist Party of Kampuchea during Khmer Rouge rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). The mass killings were part of the broad, state-sponsored Cambodian genocide.
- Professional English speaking tour guide
- Water or Soda
- Hotel Pick up
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Professional English speaking tour guide
- Water or Soda
- Hotel Pick up
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- killing field (3$ /person)
- Genocide museum (5$/person)
- killing field (3$ /person)
- Genocide museum (5$/person)
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 out of 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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