SHOOT: Imagine that, 1.7 million of your countrymen dying around you, and you, one of seven others, living on. And the reason - because you can paint (even without toenails).
"I survived because I could paint exact portraits of Pol Pot," he said. His first job was to copy Pol Pot's image from a photograph and make a towering painting that was 10 feet high and 5 feet wide (3 meters high and 1.5 meters wide). It took three months to complete.
Duch would sometimes oversee his work and smile at him when he did a good job or give him cigarettes, Bou Meng said.
Survivor Chum Mey, 79, testified Tuesday that he endured beatings, electric shocks and had his toenails pulled out but was spared execution because he knew how to fix cars, tractors, sewing machines and typewriters.
The only other living survivor, 63-year-old Vann Nath, testified Monday that he too escaped execution because he was an artist and painted portraits of Pol Pot.
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