Case 002 Witnesses, experts and Civil Parties

Witnesses, experts and Civil Parties who have appeared in Case 002. Click on photo for larger version.

Mr. Neang Ouch

Mr. Neang Ouch, alias Ta San, 72, a former teacher, told the court he was appointed in 1975 as chief of education of three provinces, including Kampot and Takeo. In 1977 he was transferred by his brother-in -law Ta Mok to Leay Bour commune, where he was appointed as an assistant to the district committee. He disputed claims made by other witnesses that he was the District Secretary of Tram Kok. The witness stated that he was instructed to provide technical assistance in the construction of dams and canals and to show the cooperatives to Swedish and Chinese delegations. He was questioned about the administrative and communication structure in the cooperatives and the relations between the communes, districts, sectors and zones. He also answered questions about marriage ceremonies he had witnessed. When question about Buddhist practices, he said that there were no pagodas in operation in Tram Kak district. 

Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 10 March 2015, Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 09 March 2015, Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 11 March 2015, Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 12 March 2015
Mr. VAN Soeun (VANN Soan)

Mr. Vann Soeun, alias Soan, 56, from Leay Bour commune in Tram Kok district, said he was assigned in 1975 to the guard unit at Kraing Ta Chan detention centre and tasked as a messenger during day time and as a prisoners’ guard during night time. He testified about the operations at Kraing Ta Chan and the conditions of the prisoners. He said he never saw any executions of prisoners, because he was stationed to guared the outer perimeter of the compound. When asked questions about defrocking of monks, he said he had heard of instances of defrocking from other people.

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Mr. Phann Chhen

Mr. Phann Chhen, 83, told the court that in 1973-1974 he was commune chief of Kus in Takeo in charge of culture and education. He said that he had no authority over Kraing Ta Chan after 1973, when it was transformed into a detention facility, and he only entered it to supply food. He was questioned about his knowledge about the operations at Kraing Ta Chan, and he denied ever having been in charge of Kraing Ta Chan during the period he was commune chief. He was asked about his role in the committee organizing housing for evacuees and people released from Kraing ta Chan (1973-74). He testified that that the marriages he witnessed appeared not be forced. He was also about party policies towards the Vietnamese, which he had learned of from broadcasts and meetings.

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Mr. SREI Than

Mr. Srei Thân, alias Duch, 58, was a Khmer Rouge soldier in Tram Kok district and later, in 1977, a guard in Kraing Ta Chan detention centre. He explained that while at Kraing Ta Chan he had been asked by the prison’s chief and his deputy to type confessions reports. He stated that while working in the prison chief’s office he could hear the screaming from the interrogation site. He was questioned about his tasks at Kraing Ta Chan and his unit. Following a request for protective measures, the Trial Chamber ordered that the address of the witness should not be disclosed to the public, and that his image should not be shown in public. The picture of the witness has therefore been distorted

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Mr. SAO Hean

Mr. Sao Han, 68, from Tram Kok district, told the Trial Chamber that after the fall of Phnom Penh, his brother, a former Lon Nol soldier,was arrested and taken away for re-education a few days after he had arrived in his native village in Tram Kok district. . Later on he learned from neighbours that his brother had been taken to Kraing Ta Chan detention centre and killed. He was questioned about the working and living conditions in the cooperative. Asked about Buddhism, he stated that he witnessed statues and books being taken away from pagodas and monks being defrocked.

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PHNEOU Yav

Mr. Phneu Yav, 68, from Samraong commune, Tram Kok district, explained that he joined the revolutionary movement in 1970. He was​questioned about the living conditions in the Samraong commune. He stated that communal eating started in 1975 along with the banning of private ownership and that people were categorized into three separate units. The witness said that in late 1976 he was given the responsibility to teach base people’s young children how to spell and read the Khmer alphabet. He was also questioned about forced marriages that took place in the cooperative, and about the treatment of Buddhists.

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Mr. EM Phoeung

Mr. Em Phoeung, a monk, 77, explained that when he was evacuated from Phnom Penh he returned to his home town, at Ang Rokar Pagoda in Tram Kok district. The witness testified that the monks were forced to engage in construction works and that in 1976 he was instructed to leave the monkhood without any Buddhist ceremony. He was also questioned about forced marriages and his refusal to get married.

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Mr. RY Pov

Mr. Ry Pov, 58, from Takeo province, explained that he and his family fled to Vietnam in 1975, and then took part in an exchange programme that was agreed between Vietnam and Pol Pot to return to Cambodia in 1976. Mr. Ry described the exchange process and the moment when Khmer Rouge soldiers prohibited them to move and confiscated their money and belongings. He was questioned on the treatment in Tram Kok cooperative and on the working conditions. The civil party stated that they were separated from the others and assigned to the “Youn” category.

[Corrected 1] Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 12 February 2015
Ms. Elizabeth Becker

Ms. Becker is a former journalist with the Washington Post and the New York Times and she is the author of the book "When the war was over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution". She was one of only two western journalist who was allowed to visit Democratoc Kampuchea. During her visit in December 1978 she interviewed Pol Pot and Ieng Sary.

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SORY Sen

Civil party Mr. SORY Sen told the court of his 1974 arrest and detention at Kraing Ta Chan where he said he stayed until 1979.

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Mr. Keo Chandara

Mr. Keo told the Trial Chamber that he joined the revolutionary movement as a doctor in 1970, responding to the call from former leader Norodom Sihanouk. He said he was arrested and sent to Kraing Ta Chan in 1975. He was questioned about arrest, interrogation, torture and executions at the security centre.

 

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Ms. CHANG Srey Mom

Ms. CHEANG Srei Mom, 60, is from Nhaeng Nhang commune in Tram Kok District in Takeo Province. She said the area came under Khmer Rouge control in 1970. She explained that before she was forced into a marriage in 1977, she had worked as a teaching assistant in a children’s unit. She was questioned about her marriage and other marriages in the cooperative. The witness was asked questions related to the living conditions, prohibition of Buddhism, policies on the Vietnamese, and arrests of people in the cooperative, including her own father, who she said was killed at Kraing Ta Chan Security Center.

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Ms. CHOU Koemlan

Ms. Chou Koemlân, 64, explained that she went with her family to Tram Kok District when evacuated from Phnom Penh in 1975. She described the living and working conditions in Tram Kok district. She was questioned about her experiences, the arrest of “new people” and marriage ceremonies. She was also questioned about her claim that she had seen senior Khmer Rouge leaders, among them Khieu Samphan and Nuon, visiting the cooperatives while she was there, as well as the arrest of her husband and other people in the cooperative, and the treatment of Vietnamese families. She said her husband was taken away and killed some time after they arrived in Tram Kok, and she also told that her three-year old daughter died from sickness and starvation.

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Ms. OUM Suphany

Ms. Oum Suphany, 68, a Civil Party from Phnom Penh, explained that when she was evacuated from Phnom Penh, she went to live with her future parents-in law in Trapeang Thum Tboung commune in Tram Kok District. She is the author of two books about her experience under the Khmer Rouge written based on secret diary she kept during the Khmer Rouge regime. She was questioned about the living conditions and her experience in the Tram Kok cooperatives, and about her claim of being forcibly married.

Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 26 January 2015, Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 23 January 2015, [Corrected 4] Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 22 January 2015
Dr. HUOT Lina, Medical Expert

Dr. HUOT Lina is a psychiatrist appointed by the Trial Chamber as medical expert to assess NUON Chea and KHIEU Samphan

Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 23 January 2015
Dr. CHAN Kin Ming, Medical Expert

Dr. CHAN Kin Ming is a Singaporean geriatrician appointed by the Trial Chamber as medical expert to assess NUON Chea and KHIEU Samphan

Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 23 January 2015
Mr. MEAS Sokha

Mr. Meas Sokha, alias Thlang, 54,from Tram Kok district. The witness said he worked in a mobile children’s unit until he was sent to Kraing Ta Chan prison together with a number of his arrested family members in June 1976. He testified about the living and working conditions in the Tram Kak Cooperatives and Kraing Ta Chan security centre in Takeo Province. He was questioned about the interrogations and executions that he stated to have witnessed at the detention center

[Corrected 4] Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 22 January 2015, [Old version] Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 08 January 2015, Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 002/02 - 21 January 2015
Mr. HIM Huy

Mr. Him Huy was called as a witness to testify on the functioning of S-21.

A Khmer rouge soldier since 1972 or 1973, Him Huy started to work at S-21 as a guard in late 1976. There he became part of the special unit operating under the defence unit and was responsible for the arrest and transfer of detainees. With the intensification of internal purges at S-21, he was promoted to Deputy Chief of the special unit in charge of security matters at S-21 in 1977. He claims that he was transferred to build dykes in the rice fields at Prey Sar in 1978.

As a witness, Him Huy mainly testified on the arrests procedure at S-21, including the arrest of S-21 personnel, the detention conditions, and the executions of S-21 prisoners. He told the Trial Chamber that he was in charge of the transport of detainees to Choeung Ek where executions took place beginning in 1977, but that he had himself only executed one prisoner there.

Him Huy also addressed the role of the Accused at S-21. He stated that "Duch was the only one to give orders" at S-21, and that he was scared of him: "Frankly, when I see him, it reminds me of the moment I had worked with him. I did not dare to look at him [Ö] and even now, Iím fearful of him". He recounted how S-21 personnel were put "on high alert" once purges inside the prison had begun.

A lawyer assisted Him Huy in case an issue of self-incrimination arose. However, Him Huy did not invoke his right to remain silent.

Transcript of proceeding "DUCH" Trial - 16 July 2009, Transcript of proceeding "DUCH" Trial - 20 July 2009, Transcript of hearing on the substance in Case 001 – 15 July 2009

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