Pol Pot is the main leader of Khmer Rouge which is communist ruling party of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During 1970s about 2 million people, 1/5 of national population were dead in the different ways such as execution. The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is known as S-21, which was named by the Khmer Rouge, Security Prison 21. It is formerly Tuol Svay Prey High School. From 1975 to 1979, an estimated 15,000 people were imprisoned at S-21 most of whom were innocent and killed at last. These prisoners were under torture and extermination. These people were killed because Khmer Rouge wanted to eliminate the dissidents.
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