Phnom Penh (Cambodia). 10/05/2002: Him Huy, former Khmer Rouge guard at Tuol Sleng prison during the shooting of documentary movie “S-21, the Khmer Rouge Killing Machine,” by Rithy Panh (Photo: John Vink/Magnum)17-07-2009
By Stéphanie Gée
Ka-set
The Trial Chamber set speaking times allocated to each party for better efficiency, a principle that maybe, the judges should also apply to themselves. Thursday July 16th, president Nil Nonn used more than three quarters of the first day witness Him Huy’s hearing – thus leaving little time for his colleagues –, including with some questions which interest was not always clear. The witness, former S-21 staff member, did not play cat and mouse, like chief interrogator Mam Nay who preceded him at the stand. However, he did not say everything…
What is that document?
Him Huy, who wore a jacket and glasses on this day, started to testify, with his eyes lowered. After a few moments, Alain Werner, co-lawyer for civil party group 1, expressed concern with the president that the witness seemed to read a document and asked what it was. The witness claimed he had no document. To dispel any doubt, Nil Nonn sent a clerk to check the witness’ table, from which he took out a bundle of documents. Was Him Huy caught red-handed? No, after checking, it was a transcript of his interrogation by the co-Investigating Judges which he was given by the Chamber on the previous day.
Not insignificant functions
Khmer Rouge fighter, it was only late 1976 that Him Huy was sent to S-21. “I asked what I had done wrong to be sent there,” but a few days later, he was appointed to be guard. Later, he was assigned to the arrival of prisoners, which took place outside of the security centre, to arrests and the transport of detainees already interrogated to the execution site of Choeung Ek. Most of the arrests he carried out were done in Phnom Penh, but on occasions, his team travelled to the provinces to pick up people who had already been arrested. He received instructions from Duch and his deputy Hor for these operations. The modus operandi was the following: the people to be sent to S-21 were taken there under the pretext of transferring them to a new working place, in order not to stir panic in them, and it was only once they were at the prison that they were arrested; when they had already been arrested in their units, they were entrusted to Him Huy’s team in his Phnom Penh centre, located near the premises of the current Beehive radio station.
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What is that document?
Him Huy, who wore a jacket and glasses on this day, started to testify, with his eyes lowered. After a few moments, Alain Werner, co-lawyer for civil party group 1, expressed concern with the president that the witness seemed to read a document and asked what it was. The witness claimed he had no document. To dispel any doubt, Nil Nonn sent a clerk to check the witness’ table, from which he took out a bundle of documents. Was Him Huy caught red-handed? No, after checking, it was a transcript of his interrogation by the co-Investigating Judges which he was given by the Chamber on the previous day.
Not insignificant functions
Khmer Rouge fighter, it was only late 1976 that Him Huy was sent to S-21. “I asked what I had done wrong to be sent there,” but a few days later, he was appointed to be guard. Later, he was assigned to the arrival of prisoners, which took place outside of the security centre, to arrests and the transport of detainees already interrogated to the execution site of Choeung Ek. Most of the arrests he carried out were done in Phnom Penh, but on occasions, his team travelled to the provinces to pick up people who had already been arrested. He received instructions from Duch and his deputy Hor for these operations. The modus operandi was the following: the people to be sent to S-21 were taken there under the pretext of transferring them to a new working place, in order not to stir panic in them, and it was only once they were at the prison that they were arrested; when they had already been arrested in their units, they were entrusted to Him Huy’s team in his Phnom Penh centre, located near the premises of the current Beehive radio station.
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2 comments:
This bastard club people with hammer to death before throw them into the pit...
He's better than Ah Duch! atleast he has admited that he had killed....Ah duch still denying?
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