Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pays tributes and homage to Cambodian martyrs by placing a wreath at the Independence Monument, in Phnom Penh on Sunday, December 3, 2017 PIDLater, the premier paid homage to Cambodian late King Norodom Sihanouk by laying a wreath at his memorial.
Sheikh Rehana and other entourage of the prime minister were present.
Sheikh Hasina later visited the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. The museum situated in the heart of Phnom Penh, chronicling the Cambodian genocide.Also Read- Bangladesh PM accorded red carpet reception in Cambodia
The museum is a previous high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21(S-21)by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pays homage to Cambodian late King Norodom Sihanouk by laying a wreath at his memorial in Phnom Penh on Sunday, December 3, 2017 PIDTuol Sleng means 'Hill of the Poisonous Trees' or 'Strychnine Hill.' Tuol Sleng was just one of at least 150 execution centres established by the Khmer Rouge.
Accompanied by Sheikh Rehana, the Prime Minister went round different sections of the museum and witnessed the evidence of the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime.
On the July 26 2010, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia convicted the chief of Tuol Sleng Prison, Kaing kek Iewfor crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, accompanied by her entourage, visits different sections of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh and witnessed the evidence of the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime on Sunday, December 3, 2017 PIDCivil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak, PM's Principal Secretary Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, Chief Coordinator on the SDG Affairs at the Prime Minister's Office Md Abul Kalam Azad, Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim, were among others, present on the occasion.
Earlier, a red carpet was rolled out as Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived here on Sunday afternoon on a three-day official visit to Cambodia at the invitation of her Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen.