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His life was only spared because of his high level of competence in machine repairing for Political Pot"s soldiers. Foreign two days they travelled together to an isolated hamlet with a group of other prisoners. On the second evening, as the family rested beside a pagoda, the guards ordered them to walk into a rice field before suddenly opening fire with their Alaska-47 assault rifles.
"She screamed to me, "Please run, they are killing me now".
When I sleep, I still see their faces, and every day I still think of them". In 2003 he appeared in the Rithy Panh documentary South-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine along with Cambodian artist Vann Nath where they were reunited and revisited the former prison, now known as the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh.
They meet their former captors – guards, interrogators, a doctor and a photographer – many of whom were barely teenagers during the Khmer Rouge era from 1975 to 1979. Their appearances are in stark contrast to the two former prisoners, who are both elderly mentor
Vann Nath, who was made to paint portraits of prisoners, has a full head of white hair.
The guards and interrogators gave a tour of the museum, re-enacting their treatment of the prisoners and daily regimens. They looked over the prison"s detailed records, including photographs, to refresh their memories. In 2009, he gave evidence at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, the trial of surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime.
On 9 November 2014 Mey appeared on British Broadcasting Corporation"s The Mekong River with Sue Perkins.
