In light of the HISTORIC (!) start of MOST COMPLEX (sic!) trial hearings beginning on 27 June 2011 and again ANOTHER HISTORIC (!) START of this same MOST COMPLEX (sic!) on 21 Nov. 2011 of Case 002 against the surviving Khmer Rouge senior leaders Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith, KI Media is posting installations of the public document of the Closing Order of Case 002. The Closing Order of the Co-Investigating Judges forms the basic document from which all the parties (Co-Prosecutors, Co-Lead Lawyers for all civil parties, Defense Lawyers) will be making their arguments before the Trial Chamber judges (one Cambodian President, 2 Cambodian Judges, 2 UN judges). Up until now, the hearings involving these four surviving senior Khmer Rouge leaders have been in the Pre-Trial Chamber over issues of pre-trial detention and jurisdictional issues. Beginning in June 2011, the Trial Chamber will hear the substantive (sic!) arguments over the criminal charges (e.g. genocide, crimes against humanity, penal code of 1956 - sic!). Available in Khmer and French. Contact the ECCC for a free copy.
CLOSING ORDER
of Co-Investigating Judges You Bunleng and Marcel Lemonde
15 September 2010
Execution Sites In District 12 (West Zone)
Evacuees In District 12 After 17 April 2997
693. In the months following 17 April 1975, people evacuated from Phnom Penh and Kampong Chhnang Town arrived in Samaki Meanchey District (originally Kampong Tralach Leu District until 1985), Kampong Chhnang Province.2998 Applying the CPK's system of identifying administrative boundaries this was District 12 in Sector 31 of the West Zone (401).
694. In Trapeang Tmes Village, Svay Chuck Subdistrict, just after the fall of Kampong Chhnang Town,2999 numerous "new people" (men, women and children)3000 evacuated from this town3001 reassembled at the local temple. Two witnesses state that they saw the people being walked away from the temple two days after their arrival. One them states that he saw them being tied up at the Chrlong Ta Puth dam at a location called Ta Kuch and that he was told by a member of the local militia who took part to the execution that they were all executed by being hit with clubs and hatchets.3002 The other witness saw grave pits, corpses and skulls at the same location in 1976.3003
695. A former member of the militia states that, just after 17 April 1975, in Chrak Sangke Village, Svay Chuck Subdistrict just after 17 April 1975, he attended a meeting where the Chairman of Svay Chuck Subdistrict, [REDACTED], had asked all the village chiefs to record the biographies of all the new people evacuated from Phnom Penh. The people were then classified into two categories: "the ordinary people such as rice farmers and the non ordinary people such as soldiers such as soldiers, civil servants of Lon Nol and capitalist". Those falling in the second category (around 700) were tied up, killed by being hit on the neck with pieces of wood, and buried at a site called Prey Toteong located half a kilometre west of PDS. The witness specifies that he was responsible for bringing the prisoners to the execution site.3004 No human bones are visible, but the investigation at the site found that the surface of
the soil was heavily disturbed over an area of a few hundred square metres, indicating previous digging and pits at this site.3005
696. In late April 1975 or early May 197 5 3006 families evacuated from Phnom Penh that arrived in Thmei Khmer Village in Tbeng Khpous Subdistrict3007 were taken to Prey Sre Val forest3008 and killed by subdistrict cadres acting on orders given by the upper level during a meeting of the leadership of Svay Chuck Subdistrict.3009 Witnesses state that the men were tied up and that men, women and children were killed by being hit on the neck with pieces of wood and cart axles.3010 The executions occurred over three to five days.3011 One witness estimates that 200 people were killed at Prey Se Val.3012 It appears that the location described by witnesses as Prey Se Val was dug up after 1979 and now contains no visible traces of its use as an execution site.
697. Some witnesses described similar mass killings in late April or early May 1975 in District 12, including at other locations in Tbeng Khpous, Peam and Kraing Lvea Subdistricts, of new people who were considered to be Khmer Republic officials and soldiers.3014 A witness explains that "Angkar" then stopped taking people evacuated from the cities for execution and that those who arrived after the first few months of the Democratic Kampuchea regime were able to survive.3015
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