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Norng Chan Phal was arrested with his mother and brother by the Khmer Rouge troops. They were sent to Tuol Sleng in January of 1979, a couple of days before the fall of the regime, and before Norng Chan Phal turned nine years old. In prison, he was separated from his mother, the guards pulled him with his younger brother - Norng Chan Ly - to the kitchen of the complex. Three days after the Vietnamese troops entered Phnom Penh, on the 10th of January, Norng Chan Pal, his brother, and three other children were found by the soldiers. Norng was one of the witnesses in the trial of "Duch." Nowadays, Chan Phal works as a gardener and a cleaner in Tuol Sleng, where he also sells his book, a self biography. Between April of 1975 and January of 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime was responsible for the death of about 2 million people in Cambodia, in one of the most lethal regimes of the 20th century. 2019 marked the 40th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Phnom Penh, Cambodia.