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| Subject: Statist legacy: The Genocide Museum, S-21: Cambodia's chilling house of terror Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:49 pm | |
| In Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, there is a museum devoted to the terrible genocide of 1975-79. The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is also known as S-21, the name of the jail where 14,000 people were imprisoned and tortured during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Only seven people survived.
It was the first place I wanted to go when I arrived in the city. I was travelling with a group doing Cambodia in style with private guides, staying in luxury hotels and shopping up big. However, I and others in my group felt very strongly that it was wrong to enjoy the many pleasures of this beautiful nation without acknowledging the collective horror the people had been through in fairly recent times and the 343 "killing fields" where more than 2 million civilians were massacred by Pol Pot's regime.
http://www.traveller.com.au/the-genocide-museum-s21-cambodias-chilling-house-of-terror-and-why-you-must-visit-1m82p0 |
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