Toul Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum was originally built in 1962 as a high school in the southwest of Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia.  After the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, Tuol Sleng was converted into the notorious S-21 (Security Office #21) interrogation and detention center.  The Khmer Rouge turned the classrooms of the high school into torture chambers, detainment cells and interrogation offices for men, women and children considered enemies of the regime.  It was here where confessions were forced from people through various means of torture before they were sent to the nearby Killing Fields of Choung Ek for extermination.  Today, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a quiet and peaceful space to contemplate the more than 10,000 men and women and 2,000 children who perished at the hands of the Khmer Rouge here and the estimated 2 million Cambodians who died during the three year Khmer Rouge domination of Cambodia.

The entrance to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, similar to the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at the entrance to the Auschwitz Camp in Poland.

One of the three main buildings that comprise the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.  The yard in the foreground was a playground when Tuol Sleng was a high school.

One of the classrooms that was turned into a detention and interrogation cell for prisoners of the Khmer Rouge.

The prisoners were chained to these metal beds.  The metal box on the bed was used as the prisoners' toilet.

This child was forced to work in Tuol Sleng as a guard.

The Khmer Rouge kept detailed accounts, including photographs, of the over 12,000 prisoners who came through Tuol Sleng.  This group of pictures shows some of the children imprisoned at S-21.

More photographs of the prisoners detained and tortured at Tuol Sleng S-21 Security Office.

The remains of some of the prisoners of Tuol Sleng S-21 Security Office on display at the Museum.  There are thousands more skulls on display at the nearby Killing Fields of Choung Ek.

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