... people that had long hair to the waist. Their eyes were sunken and their bodies were only bone and skin. I was so shocked" (Sidner). Before his imprisonment, Bou was an artist. The prison officials asked him to draw the leader of the Khmer Rouge, Brother Number 1 also known as Pol Pot. Bou began the project that would eventually take him several ... was only given farming tools. In 1978, all the soldiers in Tan's brigade were arrested, and he was sent to work on the airport. He remembers seeing people dying of hunger as they worked. Tan and his brigade fought back against the Khmer Roug...

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