page_title: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Tuol Sleng is de oude Tuol Svay Prey hogeschool die in 1975 door de Rode Khmer werd overgenomen voor gebruik door de speciale veiligheidsdienst van Pol Pot. Het gebouw werd door deze dienst gebruikt als gevangenis (S-21) en martelkamer. In het linkse gebouw werden de gevangenen "verhoord" (gemarteld). Het grote gebouw is een van de cellencomplexen. English: Tuol Sleng is the former Tuol Svay Prey high school which was taken over by the Rode Khmer in 1975 and used by the special security service of Pol Pot. The building was used as a prison (S-21) and torture chamber. The prisoners were "interrogated" (tortured) in the building to the left. The large building is one of the prison cell complexes.
context_page_description: The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, chronicling the Cambodian genocide. The site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. From 1976 to 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng. Tuol Sleng means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill". Tuol Sleng was just one of at least 150 torture and execution centers established by the Khmer Rouge, though other sources put the figure at 196 prison centers. On July 26, 2010, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia convicted the chief of Tuol Sleng Prison, Kang Kek Iew, for crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
context_section_description: The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Khmer: សារមន្ទីរឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍ទួលស្លែង) is a museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, chronicling the Cambodian genocide. The site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. From 1976 to 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng (the real number is unknown). Tuol Sleng (Khmer: ទួលស្លែង [tuəl slaeŋ]) means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill". Tuol Sleng was just one of at least 150 torture and execution centers established by the Khmer Rouge, though other sources put the figure at 196 prison centers. On July 26, 2010, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia convicted the chief of Tuol Sleng Prison, Kang Kek Iew (alias Duch), for crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
caption: The exterior of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh
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