The
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in
Phnom Penh, the capital of
Cambodia, chronicling the
Cambodian genocide. The site is a former
high school which was used as the notorious
Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the
Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. Tuol Sleng (
Khmer ) means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "
Strychnine Hill". Tuol Sleng was only one of at least 150 execution centers in the country, and as many as 20,000 prisoners there were later killed.