ABSTRACT
This chapter interrogates a principal memorial site of the mass political violence of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge 1 —the state of Democratic Kampuchea. The site of the most significant Khmer Rouge secret police institution, located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital city, is now the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes. The Museum is a place of national traumatic history that has also been taken up in significant international political discourses, and film and tourism literature representations of Cambodia. To discuss Tuol Sleng Museum, it is necessary to examine the local and international discourses that have conspired to produce the symbolic spaces and memorial declarations of a post-genocide nationalism in contemporary Cambodia.
