A very sobering experience to visit the prison where 20,000 people were
led through this facility. Men, women and children stayed here from 1 to
2 weeks...they were tortured or killed depending on what information
they knew. These pictures at not for young children but they speak a thousand words.
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| This was a middle school and high school before Pol Pot took over and changed into a terrible prison |
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| 14 bodies could not be identified in this grave section |
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| A prison room - shackles,
tin box used for a bathroom. Sometimes there would 20 - 40 people crammed in this small room. Blood stained walls and floors... |
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| The interrogat |
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| Prisoners were strapped here and the interrriga |
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| More items used for torture |
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| Room after room of pictures of prisons..w |
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| This is a case with clothes stacked up to the top that were taken off the prisoners |
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| Important government
officials that were over the prison. wo people were brought to trial and one person is in prison (81 years old). That trial was held a the Hague. |
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| Khmer Rouge Leader |
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| People were sent to the countrysid of thinking. They were probably digging their own graves. |
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| Working in the Rice Fields |
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| Torture victims |
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| Notice the number.
There is a code for the year they were admitted to the prison and then the number. They started numbering at the beginning of each year. This little boy was the 226th prisoner for 1978. All prisoners were killed or starved to death. |
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| This was our guide at the prison..He looks so much like Dwight |
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| Teachers and Professors were killed |
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| Seven people survived this terrible atrocity. Three are still living and come to the prison each week. |
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| Quite a large school at one time. People were kept on different floors. |
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| A painting of a the guards taking the baby from the mother |
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| Waterboard |
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| Pulling finger nails and toes nail out - then they poured on alcohol |
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| More water boarding |
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