408. One of the 20,000 faces of S21. Tagged, photographed and documented at the prison they were never seen again, likely tortured, forced to sign false confessions and then executed by the Khmer Rouge. Cambodia, 1976-1979 (exact date unknown) [1478 x 2100]
Picture that, every fourth person you know just gone. Brutally tortured, raped, and murdered.
Jparlabane
It’s one of the worst atrocities in history that which happened under pohl pot. Can’t even understand what he envisioned: an entire country full of nothing but peons and unskilled labourers. You died just for needing glasses as this classes you as ‘an intellectual’. The S21 museum apparently requires a strong constitution to get through. Proper grim. Hard to say what age that girl is but her eyes tell the story don’t they. God rest her soul.
Swayze_Train
I always wondered why there was never and Schindler’s List movie or Wolfenstein type game for the crimes of Communism.
Astrotsaftis
Could anyone please explain the story behind this photograph?
saturnspritr
I’ll never forget someone describing the trees that came up around the mass graves. The roots have grown around the bodies and over time the clothes have come up grown around the roots.
They described a print dress and scraps of cloth pulled up through the ground. It’s heartbreaking.
eternalrefuge86
I recently became interested in the Cambodian genocide because I realized I had heard of it but knew next to nothing about it, and the deeper I got into it the more absolutely appalled I became.
It’s just absolutely horrific. Pol Pot tortured and murdered at least 1/5 of the population of his country. Many more starved to death. His rule was based on delusion and fear.
The pictures and stories from Tuol Sleng (S-21) where this picture came from are heartbreaking. Out of an estimated 12,000 people improving Ed there, only a handful survived. Everyone else was tortured into making a false confession and executed.
Lost_Tourist_61
I used to work with a gal who spent time in those camps. She & her fam migrated to LA when Pol Pot fell. We talked about it, unreal.
WhenLeavesFall
There’s one photo of a shirtless man at S21. His ID number is pinned directly into his skin
AceholeThug
Is this one of the versions of Communism/Socialism that worked?
ciabattabing16
The Netflix Documentary on this called ‘First They Killed My Father’ is fantastic. Highly recommend it, especially if you’re like me and didn’t really know anything about the KR, the before, the during, and the after. Such a weird and tragic story for millions of people.
KornelAidan
I have been to S21 when travelling. It’s a harrowing place. Beds with chains, hammered out walls with tiny cells. 100s of photos. I was was with a Cambodian girl visiting, she was understandably rather upset. It’s like an old school with a garden courtyard.
The whole country is a place of death. There were shallow graves in an area i visited where you could see the traditional coloured fabric sticking out of the ground, also there were what looked like arm or leg bones sticking out of the grassy mud area. People had found teeth and parts of jaw bone and placed them under a tree.
Then you can go off and fire an Ak47 or a pistol at some field. Crazy country to visit. From the UK.
rundesirerun
I have been to S21, and looked at the many faces on the walls. It is the saddest most horrific place I have ever been. You can feel the despair there.
After I left I got back in the car with a Cambodian driver we had hired for the day – I was crying openly and could not stop. He turned around and patted my shoulder and said “it’s ok, we are getting better”
Cambodia is a wonderful place with lovely people, but that place – S21, absolutely blew me away.
shiggydiggy77
Why photograph and document these people at all? They ended up killing this many millions, why leave evidence, for a lack of a better word? Document their crimes, I guess I’m trying to say. Seen the documentaries and films on these atrocities, but I’m not sure I ever saw why they did this. Beyond sad, the human race is a cancer.
vasith
Khmer rouge is the one of the worst thing happened in this Earth
Ask_Me_What_Im_Up_to
Lunatics murdered a quarter of their own country.
Picture that, every fourth person you know just gone. Brutally tortured, raped, and murdered.
Jparlabane
It’s one of the worst atrocities in history that which happened under pohl pot. Can’t even understand what he envisioned: an entire country full of nothing but peons and unskilled labourers. You died just for needing glasses as this classes you as ‘an intellectual’. The S21 museum apparently requires a strong constitution to get through. Proper grim. Hard to say what age that girl is but her eyes tell the story don’t they. God rest her soul.
Swayze_Train
I always wondered why there was never and Schindler’s List movie or Wolfenstein type game for the crimes of Communism.
Astrotsaftis
Could anyone please explain the story behind this photograph?
saturnspritr
I’ll never forget someone describing the trees that came up around the mass graves. The roots have grown around the bodies and over time the clothes have come up grown around the roots.
They described a print dress and scraps of cloth pulled up through the ground. It’s heartbreaking.
eternalrefuge86
I recently became interested in the Cambodian genocide because I realized I had heard of it but knew next to nothing about it, and the deeper I got into it the more absolutely appalled I became.
It’s just absolutely horrific. Pol Pot tortured and murdered at least 1/5 of the population of his country. Many more starved to death. His rule was based on delusion and fear.
The pictures and stories from Tuol Sleng (S-21) where this picture came from are heartbreaking. Out of an estimated 12,000 people improving Ed there, only a handful survived. Everyone else was tortured into making a false confession and executed.
Lost_Tourist_61
I used to work with a gal who spent time in those camps. She & her fam migrated to LA when Pol Pot fell. We talked about it, unreal.
WhenLeavesFall
There’s one photo of a shirtless man at S21. His ID number is pinned directly into his skin
AceholeThug
Is this one of the versions of Communism/Socialism that worked?
ciabattabing16
The Netflix Documentary on this called ‘First They Killed My Father’ is fantastic. Highly recommend it, especially if you’re like me and didn’t really know anything about the KR, the before, the during, and the after. Such a weird and tragic story for millions of people.
KornelAidan
I have been to S21 when travelling. It’s a harrowing place. Beds with chains, hammered out walls with tiny cells. 100s of photos. I was was with a Cambodian girl visiting, she was understandably rather upset. It’s like an old school with a garden courtyard.
The whole country is a place of death. There were shallow graves in an area i visited where you could see the traditional coloured fabric sticking out of the ground, also there were what looked like arm or leg bones sticking out of the grassy mud area. People had found teeth and parts of jaw bone and placed them under a tree.
Then you can go off and fire an Ak47 or a pistol at some field. Crazy country to visit. From the UK.
rundesirerun
I have been to S21, and looked at the many faces on the walls. It is the saddest most horrific place I have ever been. You can feel the despair there.
After I left I got back in the car with a Cambodian driver we had hired for the day – I was crying openly and could not stop. He turned around and patted my shoulder and said “it’s ok, we are getting better”
Cambodia is a wonderful place with lovely people, but that place – S21, absolutely blew me away.
shiggydiggy77
Why photograph and document these people at all? They ended up killing this many millions, why leave evidence, for a lack of a better word? Document their crimes, I guess I’m trying to say. Seen the documentaries and films on these atrocities, but I’m not sure I ever saw why they did this. Beyond sad, the human race is a cancer.
vasith
Khmer rouge is the one of the worst thing happened in this Earth