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Bou Meng, a Cambodian artist and survivor of a Khmer Rouge torture center, has died at 85

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FILE- Bou Meng, center, former S-21 prison survivor, leaves the courtroom after the verdict is announced for Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, file)
FILE - Bou Meng, a former S-21 prison survivor, sits at his hours in Koh Thom, Kandal province, Cambodia, Teusday, Jan. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

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FILE- Bou Meng, center, former S-21 prison survivor, leaves the courtroom after the verdict is announced for Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, file)