Bou Meng and his wife were thrown into the S21 Prison in 1975 without explanation.
He was 34 years old. He was tortured as were all the prisoners before being sent to the Killing Fields to be executed.
He survived because he was an artist and they had him paint portraits of Pol Pot.
His wife was murdered at the Killing Fields and his children starved to death at the Khmer Rouge "Child Center."
Today he is in his 80s but still meets with visitors to the Tuol Sleng Genocide center (formerly S21 Prison). Here he is holding up a book about him that was written by Huy Vannak. He gladly signs copies of the book for we the visitors.