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)
The Genocide Museum (S-21) functioned as the main center of an extensive prison network across the nation, serving as a clandestine site for the detention, interrogation, torture, and extermination of individuals labeled as “political enemies” by the regime. Due to a policy of guilt-by-association, entire families were sometimes detained at the…
The Genocide Museum (S-21) functioned as the main center of an extensive prison network across the nation, serving as a clandestine site for the detention, interrogation, torture, and extermination of individuals labeled as “political enemies” by the regime. Due to a policy of guilt-by-association, entire families were sometimes detained at the facility. During the years 1975 to 1979, very few prisoners were released. Only 12 former inmates survived the liberation of S-21 when Phnom Penh was freed, four of whom were children.
The Killing Field, active between 1975 and 1979 under the Khmer Rouge, was a site of the Cambodian genocide. Located approximately 17 kilometers (11 miles) south of the city center, it was connected to the Tuol Sleng detention center. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge, the remains of 8,895 victims were exhumed from the site. These individuals were typically executed with pickaxes to save bullets before being buried in mass graves.
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