The Killing Fields execution site and two former Khmer Rouge prisons added to Unesco heritage list | Cambodia
The three places used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago were added to the World Heritage list by UNESCO.
The three locations were written by the UN Culture Agency on Friday during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.
During a four -year reign from 1975 to 1979, the inscription coincided with the 50th anniversary of the rise to power by the Communist Khmer Rouge government, which was estimated by hunger, torture and mass executions of 1.7 million cards.
UNESCO’s World Heritage List, Listing Sites, which are considered important to humanity, and the Grand Holiday of China, Giza Pyramids in Egypt, Taj Mahal in India, and Angkor Archeology Complex of Cambodia in India.
The three sites listed on Friday include two bad prisons and a Hollywood film The Killing Fields.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in the capital Phnom Penh is the place of an old high school used as a fame prison known by Khmer Rouge as a better S-21. There were about 15,000 people imprisoned and tortured.
The M-13 prison in the province of Rural Campong Chhnang in the center of Cambodia was considered one of the main prisons of Early Khmer Rouge.
Located about 15km (10 miles) of the capital, Choeung EK was used as an execution area and a mass tomb. The story of the promised savagery is the focal point of Killing Fields in 1984, based on the experiences of New York Times Foto reporter Dith Pran and reporter Sydney Schanberg.
Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975 and drove almost all the inhabitants of the city to the rural area, where the regime was forced to force in harsh conditions until 1979, when he was deported by neighboring Vietnam.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet issued a message on Sunday morning to defeat drums around the same time to mark the UNESCO list on Friday.
Hun This inscription will serve as a permanent reminder that peace must be defended, ”Hun Manet said in a video message online. “One of the darkest parts of history, we can attract power to build a better future for humanity.”
Youk Chhang, General Manager of the Cambodian Documentation Center in Phnom Penh, said the country’s “still struggling with painful heritage of genocide, torture, torture and mass savagery.” However, naming the three sites to the UNESCO list will play a role in educating younger generation Cambodians and others around the world.
“Although they have a view of violence, they will contribute to healing wounds that have not yet healed at that time and they will be able to contribute.”
