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Added to the World Heritage List are two prisons: Tool Sleng and M-13, as well as the Choeung EK execution site.
Three notorious locations used by brutal Cambodia Red Khmer regime like torture and execution sites to perpetrate the genocide of Year zero Five decades ago was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Friday, two prisons and an execution site were registered on the list by the United Nations Cultural Agency during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.
He coincided with the 50th anniversary of the rise of power by the communist red khmer, which caused the death of around 1.7 million Cambodians by famine, torture and mass executions during a reign of four years of violence from 1975 to 1979 before being ended an invasion of neighboring Vietnam.
The lists of UNESCO World Heritage Lists are considered important to humanity and include the large wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Taj Mahal in India and the Archaeological Complex of Angkor of Cambodia.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet published a message on Friday ordered people to beat the drums across the country on Sunday morning to mark the UNESCO list.
🔴 Breaking!
New registration on the @UNESCO #Worldheritage List: Cambodian commemorative sites: repression centers in places of peace and reflection, #Cambodia 🇰🇭.
➡️ https://t.co/setyyvu3st # 47WHC pic.twitter.com/spl7zlxefh
– UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 (@UNESCO) July 11, 2025
“That this registration recalls that peace must always be defended,” said Hun Manet in a video message broadcast by public TVK television. “From the darkest chapters in 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 has been converted into a notorious prison known as S-21, where around 15,000 people were imprisoned and tortured.
Today, the site is a space for commemoration and education, housing the black and white cups of its many victims and the equipment preserved used by the Khmer Rouge torments.
The registration of UNESCO was the first appointment of Cambodia to a modern and non -classic archaeological site and is among the first in the world to be submitted as a site associated with the recent conflict, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia said on Friday.
“ Champs de killers ”
Choeung EK – A former Chinese cemetery – was a notorious “field of killing” where the prisoners of the S -21 were executed every evening. The story of the atrocities committed there is at the center of the 1984 film “The Killing Fields”, based on the experiences of the photojournalist of the New York Times Dith Pran and the correspondent Sydney Schanberg.
More than 6,000 bodies were exhumed to at least 100 male pits on the ground in the early 1980s, according to Cambodian government documents deposited with UNESCO.
Each year, hundreds hold the prayers of memory in front of the site’s memorial displaying the skulls of the victims, and watch the students staging dramatic reconstructions of the bloody crimes of the Red Khmer.
Another prison site, known as M-13 and located in a rural area in the province of the Kampong Chhnang center, was one of the most important prisons of the first red Khmer, where its frames “invented and tested various methods of questioning, torture and kill”, but is only a plot of abandoned land.
A special court sponsored by the UN, costing $ 337 million and working over 16 years, has only sentenced Khmer Rouge key figures, including the chief to 21, Kaing Guek EAV, before ceasing operations in 2022.
Pol Pot, head of the Khmer Rouge regime, died in 1998 before he could be tried.
