Cambodia unveils memorial at brutal Khmer Rouge prison site

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An (R), and Joachim Baron von Marschall (L), German Ambassador to Cambodia, open a curtain during an inauguration ceremony of a Khmer Rouge victim memorial at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 prison), in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Thursday. -EPA

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia unveiled a new memorial at a notorious Khmer Rouge prison Thursday to remember the thousands who were tortured and murdered there during the ruthless regime’s rule in the late 1970s.

The $90,000 tribute, reminiscent of a Buddhist stupa and paid for by the German government, was unveiled in front of survivors of the Tuol Sleng prison in the capital Phnom Penh.