Everyone walking around the place, male and female, was deathly silent and choking back tears. All the people photographed were murdered.

S21 Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The school was taken over and used as a holding centre for prisoners before they were sent for execution at the killing fields.













Killing Fields, Phnom Penh,Cambodia












The S21 prison is one of the saddest places I have ever been to in my entire life. It has been left as it was found. A school turned into a warren of torture chambers. Iron bars and chains still hang on steel beds. The tiny single prisons that were made out of the classrooms are still there. Those on the first floor had brick walls and were about 2x2 meters. Each one enjoyed about a quarter of a barred window on the back wall. The cells on the second floor were wooden, half the size with no windows at all. All of the cells had huge bolts on the floor to which was attached a big chain. Horrible.

Worse still was block B. The animals decided that they would not only meticulously document and photograph every prisoner, but they would photograph the 'questioning' as well. The whole block is full of black and white photos - mainly mug shots of terrified, bewildered or furious men, women and children. Others are of them being tortured. There are hundreds of them, all with expressions of either pleading sadness, sheer terror or bewilderment in their eyes. They all have the same haircut and a prison number.

Everyone walking around the place, male and female, was deathly silent and choking back tears. I want to say this could never happen again, but I know I'd be wrong.