Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum panorama

Wide shot between 2 of the barracks style buildings that the "prisoners" were kept in. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Tuol Sleng genocide museum entry

Main gate of the front of the museum showing the rear of the interrogation block. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Building 4

Block 4, where the "prisoners" were kept between torture. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Museum gallery

A tourist reads some of the accounts from life in the prison camp. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

What was once a school block

If you squint, you could still just see kids running along the balconies between classes before the genocide started. Ultimately this ex school was the perfect death camp compound for the Khmer Rouge and their atrocious acts. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Block 4

Block 4 was used as a holding facility for the prisoners between interrogation. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Barbs

The buildings were covered in barbed wire to stop the prisoners from jumping off the higher floors and committing suicide, such was the misery that they felt every day. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Stairway to death

Stairs that once took kids to classes, now became the last walk for some Cambodians, as they were dragged up to be "interrogated". Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Holding cell / torture room

This is where some of the worst cases of torture happened. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Prison cell

1m x 1.5m is all you had to call home if you were held at the camp. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Block 4 barbs

A hand painted block 4 is all that identifies this building. You can clearly see the means the Khmer Rouge went to to keep the prisoners from jumping to their death. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Building 4

A 3 story building crammed with people kept in the worst conditions. there was no escape. Ever. Only certain death in time... Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Cells

School classrooms were converted into big cell blocks for efficient prisoner holding. Cells were used for tortured prisoners to be dumped between torture sessions. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Mangled bars

Every access point was barred up and fenced off to stop escaping prisoners from leaving. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Tourist

A lone tourist ponders the scene as she listens to the guided tour. Stories from some of the remaining survivors will send chills down the spine of anyone who listens. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Prison

Although the central gardens were flush with flowers, trees and colour, the only time anyone was allowed out was to be taken to an interrogation room for torture. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Survivor

One of only a handfull of survivors stays to tell their story, and sell their book. Chilling reading... Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Cell block

View through the smashed walls of a holding pen type cell block. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Building 4

Block 4, where the "prisoners" were kept between torture. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Statue

A concrete statue is left to show how prisoners would be tied up and left in the hot sun for hours or days at a time. The pots next to them were used for water torture. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Tropical architecture

bent bars tell the story of some who might have tried to escape. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.

Vents

Air was limited to the prisoners to make life harder for them between torture sessions. Purchase a print, cards, or a full size digital file of this image.