Tuol Sleng Museum

As the name shown, this is the most spooky parts of our trip in Cambodia. Eerie place.

It makes me feel so down the whole day

Tuol Sleng Museum consist of Building A, B, C and D

The huge signboards about the brief description of Tuol Sleng Museum

The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) concentration camp by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. Tuol Sleng in Khmer means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees".

Between 1-2 million Cambodians (and many thousands of foreigners) were starved to death, tortured, or killed, during his brutal reign of terror.

The Security Regulations

Concentration camp rules

When prisoners were first brought to Tuol Sleng, they were made aware of ten rules that they were to follow during their incarceration. What follows is what is posted today at the Tuol Sleng Museum; the imperfect grammar is a result of faulty translation from the original Khmer:

1. You must answer accordingly to my question. Don’t turn them away.
2. Don’t try to hide the facts by making pretexts this and that, you are strictly prohibited to contest me.
3. Don’t be a fool for you are a chap who dare to thwart the revolution.
4. You must immediately answer my questions without wasting time to reflect.
5. Don’t tell me either about your immoralities or the essence of the revolution.
6. While getting lashes or electrification you must not cry at all.
7. Do nothing, sit still and wait for my orders. If there is no order, keep quiet.
When I ask you to do something, you must do it right away without protesting.
8. Don’t make pretext about Kampuchea Krom in order to hide your secret or traitor.
9. If you don’t follow all the above rules, you shall get many many lashes of electric wire.
10. If you disobey any point of my regulations you shall get either ten lashes or five shocks of electric discharge.

The well-preserved individual cells, still have the smell of rustic woods. There is a statue of prisoner in one of the cells. Scary !!!

HeadShot ???

After visiting this museum, we should be going to the Killing Fields of Cheung Ek which is situated 15 kilometers south-west of Phnom Penh.it was a place where more than 17,000 civilians were killed and buried in mass graves from Tuol Sleng prison.

However, we feel so emotionally distressed and don't wish to further see any pile of skulls anymore, so we go to the local shopping complex, Lucky Market.