Torture Survivor dies at age 65

Vann Nath, a brilliant artist finally rests in peace at the age of 65 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia due to a cardiac arrest. Painting is a very soothing activity, but for Vann Nath it describes a dark and depressing past during the 1977. He was one of the 14 survivors known to survive Tuol Sleng, where about 14,000 people were tortured and executed. When Nath was arrested, his life was miserable, tainted by the cruel torture. His great artistic ability helped him on his release when he painted the Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot. Nath’s most recent paintings described the lifestyle of the jail cells in Tuol Sleng. I believe that Nath was a brave man for painting the treacherous past he escaped. Most detainees would have been mentally scarred from the sights of daily death but Vann Nath had a healthy way to express that fearsome experience.

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