clipped from: blog.taragana.com Khmer Rouge survivor’s paintings saved his life
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s main prison said Wednesday that his ability to paint larger-than-life images of the regime’s late leader, Pol Pot, and portraits of other communist icons helped save his life.
Bou Meng is one of only three living survivors of S-21 prison — all of them apparently spared because of skills deemed useful to the “killing fields” regime of the 1970s.