# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bou-meng
# Generated: 2026-08-20T21:46:34.901Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bou-meng"
name: "Bou Meng"
slug: "bou-meng"
description: "Bou Meng was one of only seven known adult survivors of the Khmer Rouge imprisonment in the S-21 Tuol Sleng camp, where 20,000 Cambodians were tortured and executed. He was arrested with his wife, Ma Yoeun, in 1976 and taken into S-21; they never met again after then. Bou Meng was tortured for weeks, with many kinds of torture devices and he had to fabricate confessions. He was spared from being slaughtered only because he was a highly skilled painter. His wife, according to the records of Tuol Sleng, was tortured and killed on August 16, 1977. His children ended up in a children's center, where they eventually starved to death."
tagline: "Survivor of the Tuol Sleng prison camp"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bou_Meng_at_Tuol_Sleng_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941"
deathDate: "2026-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.89
  momentum:             25
  historical:           4.011470666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55171852"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bou_Meng"
    title: "Bou Meng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bou_Meng"
    title: "Bou Meng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bou_Meng"
    title: "Bou Meng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views