S-21 prison, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Inside the notorious Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

By Steve Meacham
January 23 2016 - 12:15am
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. Photo: Getty Imagess
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. Photo: Getty Imagess

If you'd spotted the shrivelled old man leaving a side room of the museum, you might well have made the same mistake I did. My immediate thought is that he's an art restorer, or even a cleaner finishing his shift. However by the time I shake his hand at the end of our museum tour, I know all about Chum Mey.

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