GSM is where PJ prison was. There's an article here: http://www.khmer440.com/k/2012/02/in-th ... ian-clink/
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GSM to get facelift
Alexandra thanks for sharing this info and links, I didn't know about this. So even in the past this place was hell on earth
"Imagine a place so filthy, infested and decrepit that the Khmer Rouge didn’t want to use it as one of their torture chambers, so used it instead as a pigpen. That place was T3 prison, one of the first pieces of infrastructure built under the French protectorate."Alexandra wrote:GSM is where PJ prison was. There's an article here: http://www.khmer440.com/k/2012/02/in-th ... ian-clink/
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Seems like it managed to retain its character!
Actually there was respite for the area round about 2009, before slumping back into character.
I think I took this picture around Christmas of that year.
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T3 was a different prison, it was down on St 13 behind Wat Ounalom.Mèo Đen wrote:
"Imagine a place so filthy, infested and decrepit that the Khmer Rouge didn’t want to use it as one of their torture chambers, so used it instead as a pigpen. That place was T3 prison, one of the first pieces of infrastructure built under the French protectorate."
Seems like it managed to retain its character!
T3 on 154/13 :
The Police HQ gate on 154/51 where PJ was:
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
T3 was a different place indeed, but at least the author of the article describes former PJ (now GSM) as "even worse".
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Being one of the former sites for S21 is pretty much as bad as it gets.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Yes I didn't read the article Alexandra referenced fully, I just took the first few lines and thought it fitted. It mentions PJ further down, I should have used that as my attempt at humour :Lucky Lucan wrote: T3 was a different prison, it was down on St 13 behind Wat Ounalom.
"Bad as T3 was, not far up the street, on the corner of 154 and Pasteur was an even worse place. Part of a larger police headquarters, this was PJ Prison, from the French Police Judiciaire. Built in 1937, it served briefly as the notorious S21, but in 1976 this moved to the more familiar Tuol Sleng location."