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Vann Nath, whose ability to skillfully paint and sculpt images
of Pol Pot made him one of only seven 
Vann also testified last year against Kaing Guek Eav, the head of S-21, whose trial I wrote about for American Spectator on several occasions.
If you are ever in Cambodia, make sure you visit the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum — it is sobering. Vann’s paintings, in addition to black-and-white photographs of the many thousands of victims, are there.
Some of his work:
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albert constantine jr.| 9.7.11 @ 4:26PM
Cambodia-1975: Khmer intellectuals with Western university educations infatuated with Marxism and with a disdain for history take over a country with significant border security problems and a neighbor in the throes of war. They deign to start society over from Year 1, and with an army of uneducated thugs and opportunists, murder hundreds of thousands of their real and imagined opponents, and through their incompetence starve hundreds of thousands more. Hope & change, anyone?
Occam's Tool| 9.7.11 @ 5:16PM
Sounds like Obama's view of heaven.
USSAlabama| 9.8.11 @ 9:31AM
Cambodia is among the most beautiful of countries with much to offer in the way of tourism.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is not to be missed - ripping the heart in the most primal human emotion one will ever experience.