Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum for the Cambodian genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, the site is a former secondary school that had been turned into an internment facility known as Security Prison 21 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; it was one of between 150 and 196 torture and execution centers established by the Khmer Rouge and their secret police.
- City
- Phnom Penh
- Country
- Cambodia
- Category
- Museum
- Suggested visit
- About 120 minutes
More places in Phnom Penh
- National Museum of Cambodia
- Wat Botum
- Cambodia–Vietnam Friendship Monument
- Royal Palace of Cambodia
- Wat Phnom
- Silver Pagoda
Background: Wikipedia