Cambodian Embassy officer Han Touch, right,
and German Embassy officer Adelbert Eberhardt, left, hold a design of a
memorial building at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, in Phnom Penh, Thursday,
July 10, 2014. Pic: AP
PHNOM
PENH, Cambodia (AP)
— Cambodia is building a memorial at the
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum to remember at least 12,000 people tortured and
killed there during the radical Khmer Rouge regime.
The
museum, formerly a high school in Phnom Penh, was turned into a prison after
the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975. An estimated 1.7 million people died as a
result of their radical policies.
Kranh
Tony, an official attached to the special tribunal for the genocide crimes,
said Thursday the memorial will ease the mind of the victims who died in the
prison and will be an educational tool for the next generation.
The
Buddhist stupa memorial will be roughly 10 meters square (33 feet) and 1 meter
tall. It will cost $80,000 and be completed in nine months.
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