This image shows shackles and photographs of prisoners on display at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the former Khmer Rouge prison and execution centre S.21. The pile of shackles is behind a rope. The photographs of prisoners hang on the upper part of the wall. There are two sections: identification photos of prisoners just after their arrest and arrival in S.21; and, photos of the prisoners who have been tortured and killed.

This photograph is part of the collection held by the Agence Khmère de Presse (AKP) and Cambodia’s Ministry of Information. This collection, which documents the early years of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea as photographed by the Vietnamese and a small team of Cambodian photographers, has not yet been classified or indexed.