ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a principal memorial site of the mass political violence of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge - 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 chapter discusses of the national, regional and international politics brought to bear upon the Museum during the People's Republic of Kampuchea period. Andreas Huyssen suggests that 'a modern society's memory is shaped by such public sites as the museum and, thus employed, museums are spaces in which the social and symbolic order is produced and affirmed'. One of the most notable aspects of the Vietnamese-inflected memorialisation of Cambodia's genocide sites was the deployment of an internationally recognised discourse of genocide — consistendy aligning Cambodia's genocide with the European Holocaust of the Second World War.
