Thousands of photos and documents from the Khmer Rouge S-21 torture center,
also known as Toul Sleng, have been submitted for recognition on the Unesco
international register, the UN cultural body said in a press release received
Thursday.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum archives in the capital were registered by
Unesco's Memory of the World grouping for Asia and the Pacific region in
February and are now being submitted for listing on the Unesco international
register, the body said.
The detailed S-21 archives document the fate of the more than 15,000 prisoners
held in the Khmer Rouge's deadly 1975-1979 Democratic Kampuchea regime, during
which up to 2 million Cambodians perished.
Only 14 survivors were originally identified, but researchers last week
revealed newly available documents showing 177 prisoners were released prior to
1978.
Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians died as victims of the killing fields from
torture, disease, starvation, overwork and executions across the country, but
S-21 remains unique for its harrowing and painstaking documentation of Khmer
Rouge atrocities.
S-21 documents include 4,186 confessions, 6,226 prisoner biographies, 6,147
photos, demolished buildings, research activities, mass graves and remains of
victims.
"All documents and items that are providing an essential part of the evidence
advanced during the pre-trials and trials of the senior leaders of the
Democratic Kampuchea for serious crimes under national and international law,"
Unesco said in the release.
The Memory of the World programme guarantees regional recognition and promotes
preservation, digitalization, and public access to member sites and documents,
according to Unesco.
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