Known as S-21 to the Khmer Rouge, the former high school now goes by the official title of the National Museum of Tuol Sleng. Photo: APPhnom Penh
Monday, 09 August 2010
Tuol Sleng museum, the former Khmer Rouge torture center, marked its first anniversary as a Memory of the World Monday, as officials set a giant stone on the southern side of Building A.
More than 12,000 people were sent to their deaths at Tuol Sleng under Kaing Kek Iev, the Khmer Rouge prison chief who was sentenced to a commuted 19 years by a UN-backed tribunal last month.
Known as S-21 to the Khmer Rouge, the former high school now goes by the official title of the National Museum of Tuol Sleng, following its Unesco Memory of the World listing on July 31, 2009.
The museum holds an archive of 4,186 prisoner confessions, 6,226 prisoner biographies and 6,147 photographs.
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