2025 Cambodia And Vietnam: Tuol Sleng III

 Torture at Tuol Slen represented a wide range:  electrocution, water boarding, beatings, searing with hot metal, hanging, suffocation, removal of nails and then the pouring of alcohol in the wounds.  Confessions, once given, could run into the thousands of words, all recorded via tape or writing and used against other individuals named in the confessions.  Likely most of the confessions were the product of torture.  Additionally, prisoners were used for medical experiments and training, undergoing surgery without anesthesia or having their blood drained from their bodies.

After the end of torture after 1976, prisoners taken to the nearby Boueng Choeung Ek ("Crow's Feet Pond) where, in order to conserve valuable bullets, prisoners were battered to death with iron bars or pick axes or cut down with machetes.

The average age of an guard was in their teens, those of the interrogators in their 20's.

One of the larger prison cells, where prisoners were chained to an iron bar.

The prison preserved many of the instruments of torture.  Individuals were either dunked into the basin until they almost drowned or hung by their torso on the frame.

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