Toul Sleng Museum

On my way to the museum, I decided to walk i got rather lost in PP, anyway because it had been raining a reasonable amount the night before, all the roads were super brittle and in a couple of places the trucks fell right through them and then the trucks that came to help also did - quite a sight really! Underneath the streets about a meter down are the sewers and of course it had been raining so PEE-EWW!

The genocide museum was very harrowing and quite disturbing, during 1975-1979 when Pol Pot was in power under the Khmer Rouge, he basically was running a communist society, so anyone who was educated or associated with the government was killed. S21 was the name of the school that was turned into the prison where nearly 14000 people lost their lives. The bodies and remains were taken to the killing fields afterwards. This is me in Building C one of the building used to torture and kill victims.

A few skulls and remains were found at S21, and put into glass case displays, this skull you can see has a bullet hole straight through the top of it. There were rows and rows of similar skulls with bullet holes of bashed in bones, not a nice scene at all.

This is a piece of equipment that was used to torture the victims there, basically a long screw that gets driven into the back of your head. The lady in the photo was the victim of this form of torture, other types were the gallows where victims were strung upside down by their ankles until they lost conciousness and then dunked into a fertliser to regain conciousness fast, this would be repeated several times.

This is one of the prison hodling cells a large one at that, it contained a single bed where victims would be chained to the bed and tortured.

There are rows and rows of photos, of the victims, this little girl just stood out to me, I wonder what happened? and what her story was? The Khmer Rouge was an awful time in Cambodia's history that wiped out nearly 1/4 of the population, everyone over the age of 40 has story about it here in Cambodia, it seems so recent.

Skinny doesn't even begin to descibe... poor guy

This is looking out over the museum, basically 4 buildings in a square shape, all 3 stories high, and a large middle section. This museum definately was a very moving experience.