By Khmer Democrat, Phnom Penh
ECCC Cases 003 and 004 Series
Is civil party applicant Ms. Theary C. Seng correct in saying that Meas Muth and Sou Met are in Case 003 and Im Chaem and two other district chiefs are in Case 004? See ECCC Timeline by Theary C. Seng. Are Cambodian scholar Steve Heder and international lawyer Brian Tittemore correct in naming Meas Muth and Sou Met as senior leaders to be prosecuted? See http://www.wcl.american.edu/warcrimes/khmerrouge.pdf?rd=1. This series will provide in full the section on Meas Muth and Sou Met from the report Seven Candidates for Prosecution: Accountability for the Crimes of the Khmer Rouge.
ECCC Cases 003 and 004 Series
Is civil party applicant Ms. Theary C. Seng correct in saying that Meas Muth and Sou Met are in Case 003 and Im Chaem and two other district chiefs are in Case 004? See ECCC Timeline by Theary C. Seng. Are Cambodian scholar Steve Heder and international lawyer Brian Tittemore correct in naming Meas Muth and Sou Met as senior leaders to be prosecuted? See http://www.wcl.american.edu/warcrimes/khmerrouge.pdf?rd=1. This series will provide in full the section on Meas Muth and Sou Met from the report Seven Candidates for Prosecution: Accountability for the Crimes of the Khmer Rouge.
Sou Met and Meah Mut
Who are Meas Muth and Sou Met? Part 2
iii. Reports and other Documents from Sou Met and Meah Mut
ii. Minutes of General Staff Meetings
Who are Meas Muth and Sou Met? Part 2
iii. Reports and other Documents from Sou Met and Meah Mut
Other records indicate that large numbers of cadre and combatants of Divisions 502 and 164 were sent to S-21. In the case of Sou Met, documents bearing his signature addressed to Duch facilitated the transfers. In light of previously summarized evidence that both Division Secretaries were fully apprised of and committed themselves to the CPK policies of extermination, their active role in facilitating arrests suggests that they substantially and knowingly contributed to the executions connected with their Divisions.
In a report dated September 1, 1976 containing his signature, Sou Met informed the General Staff that Battalion 513 of Division 502 had arrested "two persons, one named Sut and another named Eng, on 19 August 1976" near the south wall of Pochentong airport. This followed an incident on August 15, 1976 when "some strangers stole some equipment" in Battalion 513's area of operation. According to Sou Met's report, during interrogation Sut and Eng identified themselves as combatants of the Central Committee's marine Regiment 152, and the report treats them as acting on behalf of an enemy network. It declares that, according to their "responses," they "were going around stealing things to eat, such as rice, chickens and various items." These "theft actions" had supposedly been "whipped up" as part of an enemy organizational plan by two persons named Sovan and San, "whose agitation was that making revolution is difficult, there's not enough rice to eat, and that those who want to be bigshots should have formal officer ranks."
In this context, it is apparent that Sou Met gave effect to Son Sen’s directions relating to the purging of enemy elements by arresting and sending to S-21 more cadre and combatants who had deserted, engaged in "liberal activities" or did not respect "organizational discipline," as well as those implicated as traitors in the confessions of persons previously arrested. Notes addressed by Met to Duch on June 1 and 2, 1977 gave such reasons in explaining why persons from Division 502 were being sent to the S-21 Chairman. A similar note to Duch on October 4, 1977 accompanied two more prisoners.
More generally, the extent of Sou Met's cooperation may be indicated by the fact that the confessions of some sixty-seven Division 502 cadre and combatants have been found in the S-21 archives.
Although we have not discovered as much documentation relating to Mut’s role in effecting arrests, his cooperation with the CPK arrest policy is suggested by the existence of the "confessions" of at least twenty-four Division 164 prisoners in the S-21 archives – as Secretary of the Division Mut must have been aware of this volume of arrests. And more directly, in a message sent to Son Sen on February 22, 1976, Meah Mut reported on the recent arrest by Division 164 of eight persons and the interrogation of one of them, whose "responses" identified those detained as members of "a group of ... bandits who are hiding out in the vicinities west and north of Veal Rinh," the seat of Prey Nup District, and who had being doing political opposition "work among the masses in the grassroots" there.
In a report dated September 1, 1976 containing his signature, Sou Met informed the General Staff that Battalion 513 of Division 502 had arrested "two persons, one named Sut and another named Eng, on 19 August 1976" near the south wall of Pochentong airport. This followed an incident on August 15, 1976 when "some strangers stole some equipment" in Battalion 513's area of operation. According to Sou Met's report, during interrogation Sut and Eng identified themselves as combatants of the Central Committee's marine Regiment 152, and the report treats them as acting on behalf of an enemy network. It declares that, according to their "responses," they "were going around stealing things to eat, such as rice, chickens and various items." These "theft actions" had supposedly been "whipped up" as part of an enemy organizational plan by two persons named Sovan and San, "whose agitation was that making revolution is difficult, there's not enough rice to eat, and that those who want to be bigshots should have formal officer ranks."
In this context, it is apparent that Sou Met gave effect to Son Sen’s directions relating to the purging of enemy elements by arresting and sending to S-21 more cadre and combatants who had deserted, engaged in "liberal activities" or did not respect "organizational discipline," as well as those implicated as traitors in the confessions of persons previously arrested. Notes addressed by Met to Duch on June 1 and 2, 1977 gave such reasons in explaining why persons from Division 502 were being sent to the S-21 Chairman. A similar note to Duch on October 4, 1977 accompanied two more prisoners.
More generally, the extent of Sou Met's cooperation may be indicated by the fact that the confessions of some sixty-seven Division 502 cadre and combatants have been found in the S-21 archives.
Although we have not discovered as much documentation relating to Mut’s role in effecting arrests, his cooperation with the CPK arrest policy is suggested by the existence of the "confessions" of at least twenty-four Division 164 prisoners in the S-21 archives – as Secretary of the Division Mut must have been aware of this volume of arrests. And more directly, in a message sent to Son Sen on February 22, 1976, Meah Mut reported on the recent arrest by Division 164 of eight persons and the interrogation of one of them, whose "responses" identified those detained as members of "a group of ... bandits who are hiding out in the vicinities west and north of Veal Rinh," the seat of Prey Nup District, and who had being doing political opposition "work among the masses in the grassroots" there.
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4 comments:
Yesterday I was Theary Seng and today I am new Meas Muth and Sou Met.
Var Kim Hong does recognize that Cambodia, if compared to the colonial Service Geographique de l’Indochine scale map 1/100,000 and the 1985 delimitation treaty, will loses 9,000 hectares; and compared to U.S Army Mapping Service scale map 1/50,000 with the 1985 Treaty, would lose about 7,900 hectares to Vietnam. This statement was confirmed by Var Kim Hong to Mr. Touch Bora Esq through a telephone conversation on 30 August 2002 at 4:30 p.m. (Sydney time), which Mr. Touch Bora Esq wrote in his letter dated on 9 September 2002 sent to Sam Dach Ta Noroudom Sihanouk concerning over border affairs.
In fact, the loss is absolutely more than the 1000 square kilometers stated by MP Sam Rainsy in his statement, if we add the size of the historical water of 30000 square kilometers awarded to Vietnam under the 1982 Agreement which has been into affect and now already become under the full control of Vietnam. And this would not be the last if the equidistance principle be used to delimit the maritime boundary, Cambodia will lose an additional area of sea and seabed measuring at least 860 square nautical miles from the Brevie Line to the north, analyzed by Mr. Touch Bora Esq or another 10000 square kilometers confirmed by Mr. Sean Pengse, the President of the Cambodian Border Committee Worldwide, which exclusively include another Koh Poula Wai to Vietnam added to the previous lost islands- Koh Tral (Dao Phu Quoc) and Koh Poulo Panjang (Dao Thu Chu).
This is why sVar Kim Hong said in front of Students´s Movement for Democracy (SMD), and Sam Dach Ta Norodom Sihanouk on 22 Janaury 2000 during our audience with him concerning the border resolution with Vietnam that; “If we want peace, we must sacrifice our flesh to the tiger.” The truth is discovered now that, “Sacrifice the flesh to tiger actually means cutting our land to the Viet.” This word was clearly spoken out from his mouth and there were Sam Dach Ta as witness and 31 members.
We must condemn this Var Kim Hong for his role in helping the traitorous regime of Hun Sen.
Smart Khmer Girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 10,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 10,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 10,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 10,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
Khmer people dont want the truth....They just wanted to live and dont care who;s what. That what happen since the KR.......same shit today 2011
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