Day Ten (Phnom Penh)

After another bus ride we found ourselves back in Phnom Penh. With only an afternoon to spare we visited Tuol Sleng prison (we have so much fun). People weren't just imprisoned at Tuol Sleng they were tortured and murdered there. Before becoming a prison it was a school.

Many of the rooms remained untouched blood and all. In the rooms which had been changed pictures of the prisoners had been hung.

From the afar it just looks like an old building in need of repair.

When you get up close though you can see the barbed wire.

Once inside you can see the faces of some of the victims...

and the make-shift prison cells they lived in.

Then you see their blood.

One of the torture rooms

The rules that the prisoners had to obey :

1. You must answer according to my questions. Do not turn away.

2. Do not try to hide the facts by making pretexts of this and that. You are strictly prohibited to contest me.

3. Do not be a fool for you are a chap who dares to thwart the revolution.

4. You must immediately answer my questions without wasting time to reflect.

5. Do not tell me either about your immoralities or the revolution.

6. While getting lashes or electrification you must not cry at all.

7. Do nothing. Sit and wait for my orders. If there are no orders, keep quiet. When I ask you to do something. You must do it right away without protesting.

8. Do not make pretexts about Kampuchea Krom in order to hide your jaw of traitor.

9. If you do not follow all the rules above, you shall get many lashes or electric wire.

10. If you disobey any point of my regulations you shall get either 10 lashes or five shocks of electric discharge.