Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

It is hard to believe the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge and how they could have happened so recently. The museum was quite an emotional experience. It was good that we had seen The Killing Fields while in Siem Reap as it gave us all a bit of context as to what happened.

Campbell stands in the front grounds of the museum where 14 people from the prison are buried.

Kelly looks out to the courtyard from the second floor of one of the prison buildings.

Here is part of a poem that was hung on a wall. We will have to look it up when we have a chance as it is a very good depiction of how the Khmer Rouge took away everything from the people.

Some of the photographs at the museum were very graphic and certainly disturbing. The biographies of some of the prisoners as well as some of those who worked at the prison were most revealing. Again, it is so hard to believe that such things could happen so recently and that no one seemed to do anything about it. The fact that we knew so little about it before we arrived here is telling in itself.