The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Cambodia 2006, Part 5)

In the 1970s, under the Khmer Rouge, nearly 2.5 million Cambodians were slaughtered. One of the main death camps used to carry out this genocide was Tuol Sleng. In the heart of Phnom Penh, this former high school became a place of unimaginable torture and death, littered with rotting skulls and flesh.It is one of the great mysteries of God's sovereign plan that through these severe years of physical death, more spiritual life was cultivated in Cambodia than ever before. Do you know any Christian Cambodians? Talk to them and ask them when they became a Christian. Chances are they'll tell you their conversion happened during the killing years.This museum sits in the same place where all the killings originally happened. The photo above is of human skulls found on the property. The photo below is of a man I spoke with who was severely burned during these years of death.