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Pol Pot's security forces turned Tuol Svay Prey High School into Security Prison 21 (S-21), which became the largest detention and torture centre in the country. Between 1975 and 1978 over 17,000 people were taken from here to Choeung Ek for extermination. Only seven prisoners were found alive when the Vietnamese army liberated Phnom Penh in early 1979. Now called Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, it's a deeply forlorn place.
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