“After you visit this place – you will be a keeper of memory.” Visitors to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, are told this at the very beginning of the recorded audio tour. When guided through S-21 — the secret code name given to the Tuol Sleng prison site — you bear witness to this turbulent period of Cambodian history and view some of the atrocities that took place at this school-turned-prison for victims of the Khmer Rouge.
Keeper of Memory
Keeper of Memory
Keeper of Memory
“After you visit this place – you will be a keeper of memory.” Visitors to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, are told this at the very beginning of the recorded audio tour. When guided through S-21 — the secret code name given to the Tuol Sleng prison site — you bear witness to this turbulent period of Cambodian history and view some of the atrocities that took place at this school-turned-prison for victims of the Khmer Rouge.