My parents survived the genocide that had happen in Cambodia and when i visited a few weeks ago I knew i had to make a visit to Toul Sleng Museum. There was an erie feeling when you walked into the prison because there was so much history in the place but it is a must see when dropping in PP.
Your trip to Cambodia will never be complete without visiting Tuol Sleng Genocide Musem (S-21). I can never imagine such happened in the history of Cambodia. Looking at the pictures and other vestiges of this ruthless mass execution of Cambodians and other foreigners who lived that time, bled my heart to think of how mercilessly these people were ...
Some of the things you see here are extremely difficult to look at. You almost feel obligated by the victims to soldier on. Still I reached a point about 75% through the place where I had seen enough, and decided to leave. The scenes there definitely make you appreciate your life and what you have. I would recommend to anyone coming here, but like I said be prepared for heartbreak.
I have a friend who had fallen in love with Cambodia and wanted to show me. We arrived in PP and before I even had a chance to grab my camera, he stuck me on the back of a motorbike and off we roared, I knew not where. Turned out to be the Genocide Museum.
You can't forget about it once you've been there. The faces of the people in ...
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Not to be Missed
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 07/03/07
The Toul Sleng Genocide Museum takes your breath away. The atrocities that the Cambodian people sufferd under Pol Pot are there for all to see. It happened such a short time ago that most of the beautiful smiling Cambodians that you meet have at least one relative that died under this regime. I don't think a trip to Cambodia can be complete ...
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Ghosts of Toul Sleng
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 03/21/07
I visited Toul Sleng in Feb 2006. I have to say, of all places I visited in Cambodia (land mine musuem and killing fields included) this was the most harrowing. I was so overwhelmed with sadness by the end of my walk through that I felt physically ill.
Call me crazy - but I think you can actually feel what went at S-21 when you're walking ...
No trip to Cambodia could possibly be complete without a trip to Tuol Sleng. One will never understand the poverty and corruption without understanding this horrible chapter in human history. Take all the time you need, and then get a bite at the Boddhi Tree restaurant across the street.
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This will give you chills
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 01/24/07
what i likes about this place was, you got to see what they all went though you see soo many things that it just gives you these goosebumps everytime you go into a different room, the cambodian tried to clean up most of the blood that was left there years ago. and now its a musem to show us what they went through in the past. it was a good thing to ...
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A very sobering experience
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 12/08/06
I went there during a business trip and found it to be informational and interesting, but I also found it to be quite depressing and painful to not only hear about, but see the place where such atrocities occurred. Some might think that its necessary to go there, but it actually made me feel a bit depressed and sad for the remainder of my trip. I ...
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horrible
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 07/08/06
I’m Cambodian and really upset to see this old building, S-21. I’ve been there once when I was in high school. It is the place that fills of the deepest of pain and evil way of killing people. It reminded us the worst memory how Khmer people were killed during that time. If you have chance to go to Cambodia you won’t have to miss it.