Archives of a genocide

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is located in Phnom Penh. It was formerly the Security Prison 21 (S-21) used by the Khmer Rouge during the genocide in the 1970's. They are also online, featuring photographs taken during the genocide by prison guards. They were also shown in the 1996 book Killing Fields. Many of these photographic records show women with their children, hands tied behind their backs. One picture I saw was of a dead body, a woman who had died, from either torture or starvation. There are also wider shots of rice farmers and Chinese advisors. Please use caution with this site; by today's tolerance of violence in media, the pictures are not too graphic, but they are still of a highly disturbing nature. Some of them depict tortured prisoners.

You can also find more information about the genocide on the links from this site. Most of the links point to books and documentaries about the genocide, but there are a few other resources, as well.

One site, called the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), features archives of the genocide, including diaries and interviews with survivors. The website was created by the Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale University and is still in process.

There's also an article from The New York Times detailing the story of Nhem En, a photographer at Tuol Sleng prison, or the S-21.