A Tuol Sleng guard was put on trial and stated “We were taught how to torture the prisoners and to avoid the prisoners dying, otherwise the confession would be broken and we would be punished” if a prisoner were to scream while being tortured they would be killed. Adults were not the only ones killed in these camps though, when a child was brought into the camp they would be separated from the adults. Once the kids were separated, they would then be executed.
After 4 years of mass genocide and the almost complete destruction of Cambodian life, the Vietnamese finally overthrew Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. In the end the Khmer Rouge murdered almost 25% of their population, and coming up with a total of around 2,400,000