By Tu Thanh Ha
The Globe and Mail
The horrors at Tuol Sleng have been documented by NGOs and scholars, recorded in books and documentaries, placed on display at the museum now occupying the school.
Still, three decades later, the litany of atrocities recited before the tribunal retain a shocking power.
“The backbone” of the Khmer Rouge persecution were the security centres, of which S-21, as Tuol Sleng prison was then known, was the most prominent, the prosecution said.
“From the communal prison at the base of the pyramid to S-21 at its apex, these centres had but one purpose: to rid the regime of its perceived enemies,” said co-prosecutor Chea Lang.
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