ADDED TO THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST ARE TWO PRISONS: TUOL SLENG AND M-13, AS THE EXECUTION SITE CHOEUNG EK.

Three Notorious Locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites to perpetrate the genocide of Year Zero Five Decades AUV HAEN ADDED TO UNESCO’S WORLD HERITAGE LIST.

Two Prisons and an Execution Site were registered on the list by the United Nations Cultural Agency on Friday During the 47th Session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.

It coincided with the 50th anniversary of the rise to power by the commune khmer Rouge, which caused the death end by an invasion from Neight Vietnam.

UNESCO’s World Heritage Lists Lists Sites Considers Important to Humanity and Includes The Great Wall of China, The Pyramids of Giza In Egypt, The Taj Mahal in India and Cambodia’s Angkor Archaeological Complex.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet Issued A Message on Friday Directors People To Beat Drums Simultaneously Across The Country On Sunday Morning to Mark The Unesco Listing.

“May This Inscription Serve as a Lasting Reminder that peace must be defended,” Hun Manet Said in A Video Message Aired by State-Run Television TVK. “From The Darkest Chapters of History, We Can Draw Strength To Build A Better Future For Humanity.”

Two sites added to the list are in the capital, Phnom Penh – The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and the Choeung Ek Genocide Center.

TUOL SLENG IS A FORMER HIGH School that was converted to notorious prison Known as s-21, where an estimated 15,000 People were Imprisoned and Tortured.

Today, The Site is a Space for Commemoration and Education, Housing The Black-And-White Mugshots of its Miss Victims and The Preserved Equipment used by Khmer Rouge Tormentors.

The UNESCO Inscription Was Cambodia’s First Nomination for A Modern and Non-Classical Archaeological Site and Is Among The First In the World to Be submitted as a Site Associated with Recent Conflict, Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts Said in A Statement on Friday.

‘The Killing Fields’

Choeung EK-A Former Chinese Cemetery-was a notorious The Story of the Atrocities Committed there is the Focus of the 1984 film

More than 6,000 Were Exhumed Bodies from at least 100 mass at the ground in the Early 1980s, According to Cambodian Government Documents Filled With Unesco.

Every Year, Hundreds Hold Remembrance Prayers in Front of the Site’s Memorial Displaying Victims’ Skulls, and Watch Students Stage Dramatic Re-Enactments of The Khmer Rouge’s Bloody Crime.

Another prison site, Known As M-13 and located in a rural area in central kampong chhnang provincer, was of the most important prisons of the Early Khmer Rouge, where is cadres “invent and tested varieding methods of interrogation, torture and killing” but is now only only Land.

A Special Court Sponsored by The Un, Costing $ 337m and Working Over 16 Years, Only Convicted Three Key Khmer Rouge Figures, Including S-21 Chief Torturer Kaing Guek Eav, Before Ceassing Operations In 2022.

Pol Pot, Leader of the Khmer Rouge Regime, Died in 1998 Before He Could Be Broucht To Trial.

Buddhist Monks Line Up To Received Food and Alms During the Annual 'Day of Remembrance' For the Victims of The Khmer Rouge Regime at The Choeung Ek Memorial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia On May 20, 2025.
Buddhist Monks Line Up To Receive Food and Alms During the Annual ‘Day of Remembrance’ For The Victims of The Khmer Rouge Regime at The Choeung Ek Memorial In Phnom Penh Penh, Cambodia, On May 20, 2025 [Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP]





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