In It With The Khmers | aboutblankdesign photoblog

#6 S-21 Prison in Phnom Penh. A former highschool, the Khmer Rouge whipped 17000 people through these buildings, 1500 at a time. If you were an intellectual, literate, went to school, wore glasses, you were on it. Accusations were drafte and you were tortured until you signed. Subsequent transport and being axed to death (you weren't worth the bullet) inclusive. Seven people survived. Former commander Dutch is, too, by the way.

S-21 Prison in Phnom Penh. A former highschool, the Khmer Rouge whipped 17000 people through these buildings, 1500 at a time. If you were an intellectual, literate, went to school, wore glasses, you were on it. Accusations were drafted and you were tortured until you signed. Subsequent transport and being axed to death (you weren't worth the bullet) inclusive. Seven people survived. Former commander(and maths teacher) Duch too, by the way.

35mm Elmarit on Leica M3, Fuji Velvia 100

#7 Interrogation room at S-21. These are the only windows that are glassed, as a matter to mute the screams to the streets below. Torture methods were as creative as the interior design is not.

7	Interrogation room at S-21. These are the only windows that are glassed, as a matter to mute the screams to the streets below. Torture methods were as creative as the interior design is not.
	35mm Elmarit on Leica M3, Fuji Velvia 100

8	Hallway, S-21.
	35mm Elmarit on Leica M3, Fuji Velvia 100

#9 Exteriors were covered in barbed wire so you could not free yourself by jumping to death.

9	Exteriors were covered in barbed wire so you could not free yourself by jumping to death.
	35mm Elmarit on Leica M3, Fuji Velvia 100

#10 Inside -21. Walls are broken open to interconnect former classrooms, now cells for up to 50 people or interrogation rooms.

10	Inside -21. Walls are broken open to interconnect former classrooms, now cells for up to 50 people or interrogation rooms.
	50mm Summicron on Leica M3, Fuji Velvia 100