Cambodia: Tuol Sleng (S 21) Prison: Khmer Rouge water-boarding equipment.

Evidence of torture at Tuol Sleng (S 21) Prison: Khmer Rouge water-boarding equipment. Victims were shackled to the apparatus with their heads pointing downwards. The watering can was used to induce a sensation of drowning.

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge communist regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. Tuol Sleng means 'Hill of the Poisonous Trees' or 'Strychnine Hill'.

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