Again, this isn't a very pleasant read to skip it if you like.
S21 is an equally horrific place. It's one of the 'security base'(detention / torture / prison) that the Khmer Rouge dumped people in before they were murdered. It was a highschool which was then enforced with chailink fences, guard posts and devices of torture coming in a variety of terrifying flavours. People were held here and tortured mercilessly until their number was called and they were sent off to the massgraves a few kilometres away at the Killing Fields. If someone came in to take your phyoto, your thumbprint or made you write a journal, your time was up and you were taken from your cell. The photographs and thumbprints are displayed here. First the 'before'photos (mugshots) and then in a later detention room, the áfter'photos (battered corpses). Some less recognisable than others but with the number cards still on their chests. This was pretty much it for me. This is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life. FUcking gruesome. After exploring the area for 3 gut-wrenching hours we're emotionally exhausted, angry, sad and confused. We hit that point that day and it's no longer possible to interact with the information anymore, it's just another picture of a dead person perhaps holding her baby. We head back to our guest house in Phnom Penh to watch Seinfeld and Friends, and something that doesn't showcase humanity at its very worst. I've learned a lot about this country's tragic history and I feel like I understand the current day situation a lot more so I don't regret visiting these places. It was draining though and I could go without seeing them again.
Horrible pictures alert
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