S-21 Prisoner Portraits
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Toul Sleng Museum used to be a high school, but was turned into a prison by Pol Pot’s security forces in 1975. It was called Security Prison (S-21) and became the largest detention and torture center in Cambodia. For the next three years over 17,000 individuals were held here and later taken to Choeung Ek (Killing Fields) to be brutally murdered. There have been comparisions made between the Nazis and the Khmer Rouge with their precise record keeping during the inhuman treatment of prisoners such as these pictures. It is said that up to 1.4 million people were killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Just to be clear obviously I didn’t take the original photos during the Khmer Rouge rein. I took these photos of the prints to inform and educate.
READ INTERVIEW: Cambodia Genocide Photographer: Memories From Tuol Sleng Prison (1976-1979)”
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