Liputan6.com, Paris – UNESCO added three places used by the brutal regime of Khmer in Cambodia as a place of torture and execution 50 years ago in the World Heritage List.
The UN Cultural Agency placed three places on the list on Friday (7/7/2025) at the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.
This determination coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Communist Government of the Khmer measure to go up to power and caused the death of about 1.7 million Cambodians from hunger, torture and mass execution for four years, from 1975 to 1979.
UNESCO has collected a world heritage list to include areas that are considered important for humanity, such as large walls in China, the Giza pyramid in Egypt, Taj Mahal in India, as well as the archaeological complex of Angkor in Cambodia.
Three new sites on which UNESCO is mentioned include two famous prison and one place of performance.
The Museum of Genzida Tuol Slenga, which is located in the capital of PNOPen, was once a secondary school, which was changed by the Khmer measure to become a famous prison called S-21. This regime imprisoned and tortured about 15,000 people in this place.
Khmer Mirah also used the M-13 prison in the Kampong Chnang rural province, Central Cambodia, as one of the main prisons in his early government.
Meanwhile, they use Choeung EK, which is located about 15 km south of the capital, as the location of the execution and mass graves. The history of cruelty in this place is in the focus in the film “Fields of the Murder.”
On April 17, 1975, the Khmer measure won to Pnomopen and immediately brought almost all the inhabitants of the city to the countryside, and then forced them to work in very high -profile conditions until 1979, when Vietnam invaded and turned the regime.
