This is the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It has four (I think) buildings. It was a school that was converted into one of the many prisons used to torture and kill men, women, children, and even infants who were suspected of possibly being against the Khmer Rouge communist revolution. At least 10, 499 prisoners were there from 1975 to 1978, and most of them were tortured and killed.

The large rooms were for political prisoners, and the small cells were for others. People in the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime apparently used the metal boxes to squish the prisoner's fingers. They also used electrocution, hanging and other methods of torture.

In addition to the prisoners who were killed, most of the educated people in Cambodia were also killed or sent to the country to do manual labor. In fact, 1/4 to 1/3 of the population died in the Khmer Rouge revolution.

Not only that, but the Khmer Rouge separated children from their parents and spouses from each other and arranged marriages, which were done in mass ceremonies.

Pol Pot was the main leader of the revolution. He was a Cambodian who had become a communist while studying in France. He thought that he was doing his country good by getting rid of educated people, taking away private property, torturing and killing etc.



The picture I am looking at shows some of the human bones found in the mass graves. It is really a field of many bones.