We stayed across the road from Phnom Penh's notorious S21 prison - a former high school converted into a death camp by the Khmer Rouge. Apparently of the 17,000 prisoners at S21, only 7 survived. It was totally horrifying to go there, even 30 years later.
A demonstration of the cell sizes:
The regulations were written in Khmer in each room. Here's an English translation (click on the picture to increase the size):
The museum has room after room of pictures of victims. It was quite overwhelming.
How does a society come to this?
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