Lessons in horror with Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal

Mean Loeuy (centre), survivor of a Khmer Rouge labour camp, telling his story to a group of children during the outreach programme at a school in Phnom Srok district in Banteay Meanchey province. - AFP

PHNOM SROK, Cambodia: Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went through in a Khmer Rouge labour camp.

"At the beginning we shared a bowl of rice between 10 people," recounts the 71-year-old man who lost more than a dozen family members during Cambodia's bloodiest era.