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Bou Meng: A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21, Justice for the Future Not Just for the Victims

Bou Meng: A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21, Justice for the Future Not Just for the Victims - Thryft
Bou Meng: A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21, Justice for the Future Not Just for the Victims - Thryft

Surviving Khmer Rouge's S-21: A Story of Resilience

Bou Meng's survival story in the Khmer Rouge prison S-21 is a powerful testament to human resilience. Despite the horrors he faced, he managed to stay alive through his artistry skills. This book is a must-read for those interested in history and the human spirit's indomitable nature. It brings attention to the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime and the strength of those who survived.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Bou Meng: A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21, Justice for the Future Not Just for the Victims

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ISBN: 9789995060190

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Synopsis:
This 80 page book tells the harrowing story of Bou Meng, a survivor from Toul Sleng, Khmer Rouge Prison S-21 in Cambodia. "It offers a glimpse through a keyhole into the dark interior of the Khmer Rouge, who were responsible for the deaths of as many as one-fourth of Cambodia's population from 1975-1979. Bou Meng was save, after weeks of torture, because he was an artist. He was taken from a row of shackled prisoners and put to work painting portraits of the Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, and he continued, as other were tortured and killed, until the prison was hastily evacuated in the face of the Vietnamese invasion. Tuol Sleng has been converted into a Museum of Genocide, and its lower floors are filled with hundreds of portraits of victims, taken at the moment they arrived. Bou Meng visits from time to time and when he does he is surrounded by the images of ghosts. As he talks, standing in front of a panel of portraits, his face becomes one of them, stunned and questioning.


Author: Huy Vannak
Format: Soft cover
Publisher: Documentation Center of Cambodia
Publication Date: 2010
 

Surviving Khmer Rouge's S-21: A Story of Resilience

Bou Meng's survival story in the Khmer Rouge prison S-21 is a powerful testament to human resilience. Despite the horrors he faced, he managed to stay alive through his artistry skills. This book is a must-read for those interested in history and the human spirit's indomitable nature. It brings attention to the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime and the strength of those who survived.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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