BOU Meng
Pseudonym: KW-04
Cases: Case 001
Category: Civil Party
Background
Before and during Bou’s detention in S-21 Security Office
Before 17 April 17 1975 Bou went into maquis jungle to liberate the country.
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After the 17 April, Angkar ordered him to draw and sketch for workshop participants at Ruessei Keo Technical School.
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Two or three months later, when the Southwest Group took control of the school, he was transferred to Ta Lei Co-operative where Angkar forced him to dig canals, grow vegetables, and make ploughs, wooden tools, and rakes.
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In 1977, he and his ex-wife were brought to S-21 under the pretext that he was to teach children at the School of Fine Arts.
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When Bou and his ex-wife arrived at S-21, they were handcuffed and blindfolded.
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After they were photographed,
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they were detained in separate buildings.
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Bou was put in a common detention cell
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with 20 to 40 detainees,
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where all were shackled by the ankles and attached to a long metal bar.
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Khmer and foreign detainees ate twice a day the same gruel with almost no rice grain.
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Hungry, Bou would wish for a lizard to drop from the ceiling so he could eat it.
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Medical treatment was limited.
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Once a week detainees would ask bathe, which amounted to detainees being sprayed standing naked in their cells by the guards who were standing outside,
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often mocking them for their physical appearance.
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They would dry their shorts on the floor.
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Detainees defecated and urinated in ammunitions box and plastic jugs.
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Twice a day, Bou was brought into an interrogation room handcuffed and blindfolded,
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and after his shackles and blindfolds were removed, interrogated on whether he was involved with the CIA and KGB.
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With his face to the ground, he was beaten until the interrogators felt he had had enough,
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occasionally electrocuted until he became unconscious.
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During the interrogation processes, Bou witnessed some alive detainees carried and tied like pigs and heard the truck waiting outside to load them.
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He never saw them returning.
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When he was sleeping in Building C on the third floor in the common room, he heard screaming from S-21.
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In late 1977 or early 1978, Bou was released from the detention cells and unshackled, but kept in Building E of S-21, guarded and locked inside.
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He painted pictures there,
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and was once ordered by Duch to adjust a painting of Pol Pot.
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Duch threaten to turn him into human fertilizer if his painting of Pol Pot was not good.
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At one point of time, Duch asked him and Im Chan to beat each other.
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Bou received adequate food after his release, but remained in fear.
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Trial Chamber relied on Bou’s testimony in finding murder and extermination,
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enslavement,
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imprisonment,
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torture
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and other inhumane acts,
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which are parts of crimes against humanity committed in S-21.
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Videos
| Date | Written record of proceedings | Transcript number |
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| 01 July 2009 | E1/41 | E1/41.1 |
| Document title Khmer | Document title English | Document title French | Document D number | Document E3 number |
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| កំណត់ហេតុនៃការស្តាប់ចម្លើយសាក្សី ប៊ូ ម៉េង | Written Record of Interview of BOU Meng | Procès-verbal de l’entretien de BOU Meng | D2-1 | E3/389 |