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The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh
chronicling the Cambodian genocide. The site is a former
secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 (S-21) by
the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its
fall in 1979. From 1976 to 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were
imprisoned at Tuol Sleng (the real number is unknown). Tuol
Sleng means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill".
Tuol Sleng was just one of at least 150 torture and execution
centers established by the Khmer Rouge, though other sources put
the figure at 196 prison centers. On July 26, 2010, the
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia convicted the
chief of Tuol Sleng Prison, Kang Kek Iew, (alias Duch) for
crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva
Conventions and sentenced him to life imprisonment. |
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