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R. Evans

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Ray Evans takes us on a virtual walk through of the notorious S-21 prison at Tuol Sleng, and the Cheung Ek killing fields site in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. These notorious locations were the sites of atrocities during the Khmer Rouge period of Cambodia's history.

S-21, formerly the Tuol Svay Prey High School, named after a Royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk, the five buildings of the complex were converted in August 1975, four months after the Khmer Rouge won the civil war, into a prison and interrogation centre. The Khmer Rouge renamed the complex "Security Prison 21" (S-21) and construction began to adapt the prison to the inmates: the buildings were enclosed in electrified barbed wire, the classrooms converted into tiny prison and torture chambers, and all windows were covered with iron bars and barbed wire to prevent escapes.

Cheung Ek is a "Killing Field" site. There were a number of such sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the totalitarian communist Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979.

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