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6 6 E S T L A N D | T A L L I N N Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum pulsion of the city population to the country­ side in 1975. The complex, consisting of several buildings, formed the Khmer Rouge’s central “security prison”. Around 20,000 people from all over Cambodia, including former members of the Khmer Rouge, were tortured and mur- dered here. Phnom Penh. The former Tuol Svay Prey High School on 103 rd Street in the Cambodian capi- tal has housed the Tuol Sleng Genocide Mu­ seum since the defeat of the Khmer Rouge terror regime in 1979. It is located at the site where the Khmer Rouge established the noto­ rious “Security Prison 21” (“S21”) after the ex­ Symbolic graves on the grounds of the modern-day Genocide Museum of the last victims to die in Tuol Sleng