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------------------------------ News update Feb 3, 2012: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-asia-16865834 "Life term for Cambodia Khmer Rouge jailer Duch" Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court has rejected an appeal by Khmer Rouge jailer Duch and increased his sentence to life imprisonment....... -------------------------
News update Sept 16, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/34j57k4 "Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal has indicted the four top surviving
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3 storey cell block The single cells were on the lower floor, the women were on the 2nd floor in...
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Another angle The tropical, peaceful appearance of the old schoolyard today hides a...
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Each prisoner was photographed Much like the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge felt compelled to document what they did...
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Children were not exempt. Whole families were arrested. One wing in the complex is dedicated to an...
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Clothing After they were admitted, prisoners were forced to strip to their underwear,...
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Some foreigners were also arrested & imprisoned. Although the vast majority of the victims were Cambodian,...
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Many of the classrooms in this block were divided into crude cells. These were individual cells.
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More individual cells. The day in the prison began at 4:30 a.m. when prisoners were asked to...
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Very narrow cells The prison had a staff of 1,720. Of those, approximately 300 were...
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Shackled Those prisoners taken to the smaller cells were shackled to the walls or the...
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The men who were held in the large mass cells were collectively shackled to long pieces of iron bar. The...
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Painting done by a survivor of a mass cell.
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All openings were covered with barbed wire, including the exterior corridors on the 2nd floor where...
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Interrogation rooms The first floor of building A was used for interrogation & torture. The...
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By using horrific torture methods, the interrogators were able to extract the names of other educated...
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The gallows, one form of torture
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The gallows2 An overhead beam was used to hoist the prisoner, upside down, with his hands...
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A painting of the gallows in action
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These paintings of torture & life at the prison by Vann Nath, a survivor, are on display at...
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Gruesome...... The guards were young, most of them between 15 & 20 years of age....
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They took before & after photos... Later, the party leadership's paranoia turned on its own ranks and purges...
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These many photos are very disturbing S-21 processed over 17,000 people. At any one time, the prison held between...
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Seven were found dead When the joint Cambodian & Vietnamese forces liberated the camp in 1979,...
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One of the seven
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14 graves These were the last prisoners killed before the Khmer Rouge abandoned the...
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