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
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
Who are Meas Muth and Sou Met? Part 3
Who are Meas Muth and Sou Met? Part 3
b. Legal Analysis and Conclusions
The evidence pertaining to CPK Military Division Chairmen Sou Met and Meah Mut suggests individual responsibility on the part of both of these individuals for facilitating the arrest and transfer to S-21 for execution of cadre from their Divisions. Further, the evidence strongly indicates that each official may be responsible as superiors for failing to prevent or punish arrests and executions in which their subordinates may have been involved.
i. Individual Responsibility
The evidence reviewed above reveals several instances in which Sou Met and Meah Mut appear to have facilitated the arrest and transfer to S-21 of cadre from their Divisions. This evidence includes reports from Sou Met and Meah Mut to the General Staff informing it of arrests and interrogations, as well as notes attributed to Sou Met that accompanied prisoners sent from his Division to S-21.501
The fact that such transfers occurred is corroborated by the large number of confessions found at the former site of S-21 attributable to Division 502 and 164 personnel. Both Sou Met and Meah Mut are recorded as having made incriminating statements during meetings of division cadre regarding the arrest and transfer of “enemies” within their jurisdictions. The evidence summarized above also makes clear that Sou Met and Meah Mut were aware of the broader CPK policy to execute such prisoners. This evidence therefore suggests that Sou Met and Meah Mut directly, substantially and knowingly contributed to executions connected to their Divisions by condoning and facilitating the arrest and transfer of their own cadre to S-21. Such conduct may give rise to their individual responsibility for atrocities committed against those cadre.
i. Individual Responsibility
The evidence reviewed above reveals several instances in which Sou Met and Meah Mut appear to have facilitated the arrest and transfer to S-21 of cadre from their Divisions. This evidence includes reports from Sou Met and Meah Mut to the General Staff informing it of arrests and interrogations, as well as notes attributed to Sou Met that accompanied prisoners sent from his Division to S-21.501
The fact that such transfers occurred is corroborated by the large number of confessions found at the former site of S-21 attributable to Division 502 and 164 personnel. Both Sou Met and Meah Mut are recorded as having made incriminating statements during meetings of division cadre regarding the arrest and transfer of “enemies” within their jurisdictions. The evidence summarized above also makes clear that Sou Met and Meah Mut were aware of the broader CPK policy to execute such prisoners. This evidence therefore suggests that Sou Met and Meah Mut directly, substantially and knowingly contributed to executions connected to their Divisions by condoning and facilitating the arrest and transfer of their own cadre to S-21. Such conduct may give rise to their individual responsibility for atrocities committed against those cadre.
2 comments:
It doesn't mater case #1, #2, #3 and #4. Cambodians still not get full justice. Unless international courts put Vietnames, Chinese and American on trial. These three are the real killer.
You mother fucking stupid Khmer piece of shit, you know what happen to piece of shit like you and your fucking blinded prime minister? It will be step on, dry up and blew off by the wind. Why don’t you and your mother fuckers go back to Vietnam and eat shits so that innocence people can live in peace.
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