31-08-2009
Unofficial Translation
Extract from the Kampuchea Thmey, Vol 8, #2035, Saturday, 28 August 2009
Source: KRtrial.info
Over 20,000 citizens have attended Duch hearing as of 26 August 2009
Phnom Penh: In 35th week’s hearing of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the trial chamber allowed Duch to speak of some motives which caused him to join revolution. Duch raised three causes of his decision.
On 27 August 2009 afternoon, trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders reached a questioning into characteristics of the former Tuol Sleng prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, blamed for mass killing people at secret prison S-21. During questioning, Duch cited three reasons which caused him to join revolution and played a key role in politics of the era especially when he became S-21 chief.
Joining the revolution was caused by three reasons: first, angry at a girl he had loved for long when she rejected his request to invite her to study math with him. Second, his bicycle was stolen, making him miss class. Third, a lot of his friends were arrested by Lon Nol’s soldiers in an attempted coup event to overthrow Sihanouk.
The three reasons caused Duch to join revolution. He thought that he could not remain quiet when seeing his friends arrested. Meanwhile, Duch claimed that he could not withdraw himself from the Communist Party of Kampuchea, CPK, as he pushed himself into the CPK activities.
However, Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, was satisfied with and followed the Communist chairman Mao Zedong’s theory continue sly, thinking it could help the people.
So far, Duch trial has entered 35th week. According to the ECCC’s press release, as of 26 August 2009, 20,250 visitors had attended the Duch-trial since it commenced on 30 March. This makes a daily average of 311 visitors. The total number of visitors includes visitors from 11 Cambodian provinces (Kandal, Kampomg Cham, Kam Pong Speu, Kampong Thom, Phnom Penh, Kampong Chahnaing, Kratie, Siem Reap, Pursat, Takeo and Kampot).
Phnom Penh: In 35th week’s hearing of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the trial chamber allowed Duch to speak of some motives which caused him to join revolution. Duch raised three causes of his decision.
On 27 August 2009 afternoon, trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders reached a questioning into characteristics of the former Tuol Sleng prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, blamed for mass killing people at secret prison S-21. During questioning, Duch cited three reasons which caused him to join revolution and played a key role in politics of the era especially when he became S-21 chief.
Joining the revolution was caused by three reasons: first, angry at a girl he had loved for long when she rejected his request to invite her to study math with him. Second, his bicycle was stolen, making him miss class. Third, a lot of his friends were arrested by Lon Nol’s soldiers in an attempted coup event to overthrow Sihanouk.
The three reasons caused Duch to join revolution. He thought that he could not remain quiet when seeing his friends arrested. Meanwhile, Duch claimed that he could not withdraw himself from the Communist Party of Kampuchea, CPK, as he pushed himself into the CPK activities.
However, Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, was satisfied with and followed the Communist chairman Mao Zedong’s theory continue sly, thinking it could help the people.
So far, Duch trial has entered 35th week. According to the ECCC’s press release, as of 26 August 2009, 20,250 visitors had attended the Duch-trial since it commenced on 30 March. This makes a daily average of 311 visitors. The total number of visitors includes visitors from 11 Cambodian provinces (Kandal, Kampomg Cham, Kam Pong Speu, Kampong Thom, Phnom Penh, Kampong Chahnaing, Kratie, Siem Reap, Pursat, Takeo and Kampot).
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Son Sen
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Son Sen (June 12, 1930 – June 10, 1997) was a member of Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea/Party of Democratic Kampuchea from 1974 to 1992. He was a leader of the Khmer Rouge and was married to Yun Yat (雲月), who became the Khmer Rouge minister of education and information.
Son Sen was born in southern Vietnam, of Sino-Vietnamese ancestry[1] and grew up among the settled Cambodian minority. He was educated in Phnom Penh and in the 1950s received a scholarship to study in Paris, where he became a member of a Marxist group of Cambodian students at whose centre was Saloth Sar (Pol Pot). On his return to Cambodia, he became director of studies at the National Teaching Institute. In 1960 he joined the Khmer People's Revolutionary Party (the name of the party at the time).[2] He fled from the capital in 1963 to escape from Prince Norodom Sihanouk's secret police and is believed to have spent time in Hanoi.[citation needed]
By 1972 he had become chief of staff of the Khmer Rouge forces, engaged in challenging the government in Phnom Penh headed by Lon Nol. After the Khmer Rouge seized power in April 1975, he became deputy prime minister and minister of defense. He also oversaw the Santebal - the Khmer Rouge secret police. As such he monitored the operations of the infamous prison at Tuol Sleng, "S-21" and engaged actively in the design of its interrogation and torture procedures. In 1979, after the Vietnamese invasion, he regained command of the Khmer Rouge military. [3]
Son Sen assumed the post of supreme commander[citation needed] of the insurgent National Army of Democratic Kampuchea on the ostensible retirement of Pol Pot in August 1985, directing the military challenge of the ousted Khmer Rouge against the Vietnamese occupation and the government established in Phnom Penh. Following the Paris Peace Agreements of October 1991, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan traveled to Phnom Penh to negotiate with UNTAC and the Cambodian government in Phnom Penh. Son Sen was removed from power in May 1992 by Ta Mok, after a dispute with fellow Khmer Rouge leaders over whether to continue the negotiations.[4]
He was murdered on June 10, 1997, alongside 13 members of his family, including women and children, on orders of Pol Pot, who at the time was fighting his last battle to regain control of the Khmer Rouge from Ta Mok.[5] Son Sen and each of his family members were buried up to their necks in the ground; while soldiers of the Khmer Rouge were ordered to drive over their heads in jeeps repeatedly until the last one was dead.[citation needed] Pol Pot was said to have later denied giving these orders.[citation needed]
Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims
At one time regarded as the fourth-ranking member[citation needed] of the Khmer Rouge hierarchy, he is believed to have engaged in factional rivalry with Pol Pot and to have been implicated in the murder of a British university teacher, Malcolm Caldwell, in Phnom Penh in December 1978.[citation needed] Son Sen currently has family residing in southeast Virginia, United States after having fled Vietnam in 1983
Vietcong Sihanouk and Vo Nguyen Giap dans un endroit"Discet"près de Hanoï.
Ah Duch your master Sihanouk knew better than all ,
funny how something is this trivial caused a person to go nuts! i often say it's personal. that's why having the rule of law is very important for justice for all, really! believe it or not the society with the rule of law will deter injustice, etc...
Where were the UN and US? Where was the World compassion? Where was God? Where were you when we need you during the KR regime? I was there and watched the innocent Cambodian dying. I had only the questions without answers. How come the UN, US just show after the Vietnamese invaded and liberated the Cambodians from the bloody hand of Khmer Rouge?? Until now I still can not get the right answers!!
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