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- With this video we want to remember how easy it is for human to backslide and make the same mistakes that were made by past civilizations, something that should never happen. The "S-21" was a prison, interrogation, torture and execution center created by the Khmer Rouge regime in Phnom Penh to eliminate people considered enemies of the State of Democratic Kampuchea. Any suspect was arrested with his family. After months of torture in which he had to confess that he was indeed an "enemy of the state", he was executed with his family. It is estimated that between 1975 and 1979, 20,000 accused of being "enemies of the state" were executed with their families. In January 1979 Vietnamese troops occupied the desolate capital of Cambodia. The director of Santebal ordered the execution of the prisoners and fled the scene. Two Vietnamese soldiers and journalists, cameraman Ho Van Tay and journalist Dinh Phong, entered S-21 and filmed the scenes showing the corpses of the recently killed prisoners. For the Vietnamese troops, the discovery of S-21 was evidence that the Pol Pot regime had carried out horrific acts. For this reason, the occupying force ordered the transformation of the site into a museum of Khmer Rouge war crimes and it was opened to the then incredulous international opinion. Soon the site attracted journalists, writers and researchers, who were primarily responsible for recording, microfilming, analyzing and systematizing all the evidence produced at the prison. Between 1992 and 1993, Cornell University and the Cambodian Ministry of Culture conducted the microfilming of all the documents and evidence found in the prison. The act was overseen by judges Judy Ledgerwood, John Marston and Lya Badgey. In May 1999, a British journalist, Nic Dunlop, interviewed a Battambang man who confessed to being Duch, the director of S-21. The publication of that interview led to his arrest and Duch, who had not been heard from after he fled S-21 in January 1979, was taken to a military prison in Phnom Penh where he remained until July 2007 without trial. On July 31, 2007, he was taken to the International Criminal Tribunal for Cambodia (ICTC) detention center to face trial for his