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Choeung Ek Genocidal Center and S-21 Tuol Sleng—UNESCO World Heritage Site
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- UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2025
- Primary site: Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, an execution ground for S-21 prisoners (1975–1979)
- Over 8,000 victims' remains exhumed; thousands more believed undisturbed
- Khmer Rouge regime killed approximately 2 million Cambodians, nearly one-quarter of the population
The Cambodian Memorial Sites—From Centres of Repression to Places of Peace and Reflection—were inscribed as a UNESCO World ...