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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sopheng Cheang

Bou Meng, a Cambodian artist and survivor of a Khmer Rouge torture center, has died at 85

Cambodia Obit Bou Meng - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Cambodian artist Bou Meng, one of only seven people known to have survived a notorious Khmer Rouge torture center in the Southeast Asian country in the late 1970s, has died. He was 85.

His ability to paint portraits of the then-leader Pol Pot was why he was kept alive.

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