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 (Indictment). 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 November 2011, the Trial Chamber will hear the substantive (sic!) arguments over the criminal charges (genocide, crimes against humanity, penal code of 1956, etc., only the Phase I Movement in April 1975). Available in Khmer, English and French. Contact the ECCC for a free copy.
CLOSING ORDER
of Co-Investigating Judges You Bunleng and Marcel Lemonde
15 September 2010
IX. ROLES OF THE CHARGED PERSONS
A. NUON CHEA
Participation in the Common Purpose
Targeting of Groups
973. Through his various roles and functions in the CPK, Nuon Chea participated in the targeting of particular groups of people.
974. As a full-rights member of the Central and Standing Committees, Nuon Chea would have participated in the formulation of the September 1975 Party document which specified that the only classes that remained were workers and peasants, and that all of the other classes had been melded into these two groups.4072
Treatment of Former Officials of the Khmer Republic
975. This group was targeted while Nuon Chea was Deputy Secretary of the Central Committee and full rights member of the Standing Committee. At the May 1975 conference in Phnom Penh, Nuon Chea explained that former Lon Nol soldiers and officials would not be allowed to stay in the framework of the new regime.4073 Among the S-21 confessions, is one that is believed to be from a "new person" who had served the Lon Nol government and that was sent to Nuon Chea.4074 He received at least one telegram categorizing officials of the Khmer Republic as enemies.4075
Treatment of Buddhists
976. This group was targeted while Nuon Chea was Deputy Secretary of the Central Committee and a full-rights member of the Standing Committee. During the visit of the Workers' Party of Denmark in July 1978, Nuon Chea stated that during the period from 1960 to 1973 "we even worked within the movement with Buddhist monks, making them follow us by saying we would defend our country and religion. If the country were to become dominated by foreigners, there would no longer be any religion" 4016 Nevertheless in the early days of the regime, Nuon Chea lead meetings of CPK cadres and RAK members where he presented the Party policy to prohibit all religions including Buddhism, to defrock monks, to close pagodas, and to forbid Buddhist ceremonies.4077
Treatment of Cham
979. This group was targeted while Nuon Chea was Deputy Secretary and a full-rights member of the Standing Committee. In particular as Deputy Secretary, member of the Standing Committee and member of the Military Committee Nuon Chea was one of the superiors of Ke Pork,4078 who implemented the CPK policy against the Cham community in the Central (Old North) Zone between 1977 and 1979.
980. At a conference in May 1975, Pol Pot and Nuon Chea presented policies which included the abolition of all religions that were deemed reactionary.4079 Telegram 15 dated 30 November 1975 outlines the CPK upper echelon's policy to "break up" the Cham and forcibly transfer them from the East Zone to the North Zone. As already explained earlier, this telegram was sent to Pol Pot and copied to Nuon Chea.4080 Asked about this telegram, a witness who worked translating telegrams for Centre Office K-1 during the regime explains that Nuon Chea was copied because "this matter must also be sent to the person who was in charge of people like in order to find a solution". This witness also states that the Standing Committee may have been involved in solving this problem.4081
981. Nuon Chea was copied to another telegram from Ke Pork on 2 April 1976 that stated, "The enemies are former soldiers in combination with the Cham and former cooperative team chairmen".4082
3 comments:
In an effort to integrate Cambodia into the Indochinese Federation, Vietnam has utilized many tricks in Cambodia, particularly creating the Khmer Vietminh to destabilize Cambodia.
Does the international law allow one Country to abduct the children of its neighbors, brainwash them and later use them to attack their own Country and commit the mass killing of their own people?
Vietnam did exactly like that to Cambodia. That's why approximately 3 million Cambodians have perished from 1975 to 1979 because of Vietnam's bad intention toward Cambodia. Vietnam has created Khmer Vietminh and brainwashed them to make Khmer fight with Khmer, to make Khmer kill each other.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of Khmer people, mostly men, died in the 80s due to Vietnam’s deployment of the K5 project.
If the killings during the Pol Pot’s era were not so clear that most of the killings were committed by the Khmer Vietminh, the K5 project on the other hand has explicitly reflected Vietnam’s vicious intention toward Cambodia because at the time Cambodia was fully controlled by Vietnam, which was the chief architect of the K5 project.
The United Nations should look into this unique case of Vietnam’s interference in Cambodia. It should examine at the present Vietnam’s dominance in Cambodia as well.
Our people have lamented that why Khmer people always suffer?
Because Vietnam has its own plan of making Cambodian people suffer by initiating war, making Khmer fight with Khmer, making Khmer kill each other, and exploit it.
Vietnam has always found some dumb Khmers such as Hun Sen to carry out strictly its orders – no matter what the costs to Khmer people and Cambodia.
For instance, why did Hun Sen implement those bilateral treaties with Vietnam and defy the 1991 Paris peace accord?
Thank you for your input, Lork 1:26 PM. You have educated us Khmer people. Please help Khmer people who do not know much about how and why the Killing Fields started.
We love to hear more and learn from you
Lork 1:26 PM,
Can you explain K5 Project of Vietnam Deployment for destruction of Cambodia?
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