Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge reminders join Unesco's World Heritage list
Cambodia 's brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added to the Unesco World Heritage List.
The three locations were inscribed to the list by the United Nations cultural agency on Friday during the 47th Session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.
The inscription coincided with the 50th anniversary of the rise to power of the communist Khmer Rouge government, which caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians through starvation, torture and mass executions during a four-year reign from 1975 to 1979.
Unesco's World Heritage List lists sites considered important to humanity and includes the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Taj Mahal in India, and Cambodia's Angkor archaeological complex.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. Photo: AFP
The three sites listed on Friday include two notorious prisons and an execution site immortalised in a Hollywood film.
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