Chum Mey is a Cambodian man and is one of only seven known adult survivors of the Khmer Rouge imprisonment in the S-21 Tuol Sleng camp, where 20,000 prisoners, mostly Cambodians, were sent for execution.
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Chum Mey is a Cambodian man and is one of only seven known adult survivors of the Khmer Rouge imprisonment in the S-21 Tuol Sleng camp, where 20,000 prisoners, mostly Cambodians, were sent for execution. Formerly a motor mechanic working in Phnom Penh, he was taken to the prison on 28 October 1978, accused of being a spy. His life was only spared because of his ability to repair sewing machines. Born in 1930 in Cambodia, it’s unclear whether he witnessed war crimes in Indochina committed in World War II and the First Indochina War committed by the Japanese troops and French troops in the 1940’s and 1950’s before the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975. In 2004, he described the killing of his wife and son who were killed by the Kampuchea Revolutionary Army and the Santebal:"First they shot my wife, who was marching in front with the other women," he said. "She screamed to me, 'Please run, they are killing me now'. I heard my son crying and then they fired again, killing him. When I sleep, I still see their faces, and every day I still think of them".
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