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Turkey's deputy pm visits "killing fields" and "S21 prison"
PHNOM PENH (A.A) - 20.02.2011 - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister Bulent Arinc visited "killing fields" and "S21 hospital" in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Sunday.
Arinc first visited the "killing fields", only 15-kilometers away from the Cambodian capital, and laid a wreath on the genocide monument.
Deputy Prime Minister Arinc later went to S-21 hospital in downtown Phnom Penh, which has been turned into a museum.
The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Vietnam War.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge communist regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979.
Several rooms of the museum are now lined, floor to ceiling, with black and white photographs of some of the estimated 20,000 prisoners who passed through the prison.
Arinc first visited the "killing fields", only 15-kilometers away from the Cambodian capital, and laid a wreath on the genocide monument.
Deputy Prime Minister Arinc later went to S-21 hospital in downtown Phnom Penh, which has been turned into a museum.
The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Vietnam War.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge communist regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979.
Several rooms of the museum are now lined, floor to ceiling, with black and white photographs of some of the estimated 20,000 prisoners who passed through the prison.
