A display of photographs in the Tuol Sleng Prison, a Khmer Rouge facility used for torturing and ...

A display of photographs in the Tuol Sleng Prison, a Khmer Rouge facility used for torturing and killing between 14,000 and 17,000 intellectuals, officials, monks, nuns, men, women and children, which remains in the state in which it was discovered by the Vietnamese army after they entered Phnom Penh in January 1979. Among the material discovered were files of virtually every prisoner who entered Tuol Sleng. Every prisoner was photographed, either when they arrived, after torture or just before they were killed, the method of their torture documented, along with the 'confessions' extracted from them. Seven thousand images survived and thousands now cover the walls of the facility. A disturbingly high percentage depict children who are believed to have been just as brutally treated before they too were murdered at the nearby killing fields of Choeung Ek. According to the prison's seven survivors, while adults were hit on the back of the head to kill them, babies and children were usually grasped by their legs and their heads bashed against tree trunks. Mostly, identities of the photographed victims are unknown, but work continues in Cambodia and abroad to attempt to identify them. Originally a high school in the Phnom Penh suburb of Tuol Sleng, the top secret facility was known only as S-21 to a small number of high ranking Khmer Rouge officials, and as 'konlaenh choul min dael chenh' ('the place where people went in but never came out') to factory staff working nearby at the time. The facility is now a Genocide Museum.