Face 2 Face With David Peck

Chum Mey

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Listen in on another once in a lifetime interviews. Conducted in the prison S-21 where Chum Mey was held prisoner in the 70’s listen as he talks about his story, justice and why he feels he was one of seven people to survive the Khmer Rouge Killing machine.Chum Mey is one of only twelve known survivorsof the Khmer Rouge imprisonment in the S-21 Tuol Sleng camp, where more than 16,000 Cambodians were sent for execution. He is currently one of two surviving members still alive. He survived two months of torture and fear in a Khmer Rouge death camp, sustained by thoughts of his pregnant wife and unborn child. His life was only spared because of his high level of competence in machine repairing for Pol Pot’s soldiers.Marched at gunpoint into the provinces by his fleeing Khmer Rouge jailers following the Vietnamese invasion, he had a chance encounter with his wife and the young son who was born a few weeks after he was sent to the infamous Tuol Sleng prison in early 1977.“First they shot my wife, who was marching