Title – S21 - Toul Sleng
Date – August 2000
Location - Phnom Penh - Cambodia
The Toul Sleng Museum stands on the grounds of the old Tuol Svay High School which the Khmer Rouge converted into the infamous Security Prison S-21. Here they held and tortured thousands of citizens and sent more then 17,000 to the execution camps, but these were only the ones who did not actually die during their torture.
The methods of torture really make you feel cold and now standing as a monument to the insanity of the time, a visit is well worth it just to experience the chill in the air that must have filled the country at the time.
Obviously nothing can ever come close to completely representing that time, but certainly people regularly leave and years later see the nicotine yellow colour in another location and are taken back to S-21, which is as near to hell as you can get on earth.
On our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop, we help people to gain a better understanding of the effect historical events have the culture of countries and how comprehension allows you to communicate better with your hosts.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
Date – August 2000
Location - Phnom Penh - Cambodia
The Toul Sleng Museum stands on the grounds of the old Tuol Svay High School which the Khmer Rouge converted into the infamous Security Prison S-21. Here they held and tortured thousands of citizens and sent more then 17,000 to the execution camps, but these were only the ones who did not actually die during their torture.
The methods of torture really make you feel cold and now standing as a monument to the insanity of the time, a visit is well worth it just to experience the chill in the air that must have filled the country at the time.
Obviously nothing can ever come close to completely representing that time, but certainly people regularly leave and years later see the nicotine yellow colour in another location and are taken back to S-21, which is as near to hell as you can get on earth.
On our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop, we help people to gain a better understanding of the effect historical events have the culture of countries and how comprehension allows you to communicate better with your hosts.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
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