February 19, 2012

When This Was A School, Nobody Died: Visiting The Tuol Sleng Museum in Cambodia

by Lindsay Shapka in History, culture, Discovey, Travel

In 1975, the Khmer Rouge — one of the most lethal regimes of the 20th century — took over Cambodia.

Led by Pol Pot, the regime forced the Cambodian people to work on collective farms and labor projects, as a form of agrarian communism. Sympathetic to the peasants, they killed all who they deemed to be “New People,” or those who lived in the city at the time of their take over.