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Thu 07 Jul 2009Khmer Rouge prison a 'hell on earth'
PHNOM PENH – One of the few survivors of the Khmer Rouge’s notorious Tuol Sleng prison gave chilling testimony of “hell on earth” when he faced his former torturer at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal yesterday.
Like another survivor who testified at the joint United Nations-Cambodian tribunal, Bou Meng said he was alive only because he was an artist and Duch, the torturer, liked his drawings of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot.
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