Khmer Rouge implementation sites, torture in Cambodia added to the UNESCO list Arts and Culture News

Added to the World Heritage List are two prisons: Tuol Sleng and M-13, as well as the Choeung Ek implementation site.

Three notorious sites used by the brutal Cambodia Khamir Rouge The system as sites of torture and implementation to commit the genocide from Zero year Five decades have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Two prisoners and implementation site were included in the United Nations Cultural Agency list on Friday during the forty -fourth session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.

He coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the rise to power by Communist Khmer Rouge, who caused the death of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodi through hunger, torture and collective implementation during the four -year violence era from 1975 to 1979 before the invasion of the neighboring Vietnam ended.

UNESCO’s World Heritage List list sites that are important for humanity and include the large wall of China, Giza Pyramids in Egypt, Taj Mahal in India and the Angkor Archaeological Complex in Cambodia.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manit issued a message on Friday to send people to overcome drums at one time all over the country on Sunday morning to celebrate the UNESCO list.

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New inscription on Unesco #Worldheritage List: Cambodian souvenirs: from the centers of repression to peace and thinking places, #Cambodia 🇰🇭.

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“I hope this inscription is a permanent reminder that peace should be always defended,” Hun Manit said in the video message broadcast on government television television. “From the darkest chapters of history, we can draw strength to build a better future for humanity.”

There are two additional locations to the list in the capital, PhNOM PenH – Tuol Sleng Genocide and Choeung Ek Center.

Tuol Sling is a previous high school that has been transferred to a notorious prison known as S-21, where an estimated 15,000 people were imprisoned and tortured.

Today, the site is a space for celebration and education, as it includes black and white shots for many of its victims and the preserved equipment used by Torment KHMER ROUGE.

The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts in Cambodia said in a statement on Friday that UNESCO’s inscription was the first nomination of Kabodia for a modern and non -classical archaeological site, and it is among the first to be presented as a site linked to the recent conflict.

“Fields of Killing”

Choeung Ek-a previous Chinese cemetery-was a notorious “killing field” where S-21 prisoners were executed. The story of the atrocities that were committed there is a focus on the 1984 movie “The Killing Fields”, based on the experiences of the photographer in the New York Times Death Bran and correspondent Sydney Changberg.

More than 6000 bodies were extracted from at least 100 mass graves on Earth in the early eighties, according to the Cambodian government documents submitted to UNESCO.

Every year, hundreds of memorial prayers carry the memorial of the site who display the skulls of the victims, and see students to reactivate the blood -Roji -circulatory crimes.

The site of the other prison, known as the M-13, is located in a rural area in the Central Shanang Province, one of the most important prisons in the beginning of Khmer Al-Hamr, where its cadres invented “different ways of interrogation, torture and killing” but today only on a piece of abandoned land.

A United Nations sponsorship court, at a cost of $ 337 million and operating over 16 years, has only three major Kher Rouge characters, including the head of the S-21 Kaing Guek Eav, before the operations stopped in 2022.

Paul Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge regime, died in 1998 before being brought to trial.