Closing Order of Case 002 against Senior KR Leaders Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith

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

 

B. IENG SARY

 

 Background

994.            Ieng Sary became politically active in the 1940s as a student at Sisowath High School.⁴¹¹¹ It was during this time that he met Ieng Thirith⁴¹¹² and Saloth Sar.⁴¹¹³

995.            In 1950, Ieng Sary moved to Paris to study.⁴¹¹⁴ During this time, he became a member of the French Communist Party (PCF) with Pol Pot and Khieu Samphan⁴¹¹⁵ and was one of the founders of the Marxist Circle of Khmer Students.⁴¹¹⁶

996.           After returning to Phnom Penh in 1957,⁴¹¹⁷ Ieng Sary joined the Khmer People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP).⁴¹¹⁸ He was a Professor of History and Geography at Kampucheabot Private High School⁴¹¹⁹ until he went into hiding in 1963. ⁴¹²⁰

997.            In 1960, Ieng Sary participated in the First Party Congress of the Workers Party of Kampuchea (WPK), the new name for the KPRP, and the predecessor of the CPK.⁴¹²¹ He was elected to the Central Committee and was made an alternate member of the Standing Committee, ranking fourth in the hierarchy of the Party.⁴¹²² At the Second Party Congress in 1963, he was elected a full-rights member of the Standing Committee.⁴¹²³

998.            In April 1963, after being named by Sihanouk as one of 34 known "leftists," Ieng Sary fled to the Vietnamese border to join Son Sen and Pol Pot.⁴¹²⁴ In 1966, Ieng Sary and other CPK leaders moved to Ratanakiri in the Northeast, where a new Central Committee headquarters was established.⁴¹²⁵ Ieng Sary then became Northeast Zone Secretary.⁴¹²⁶

999.            In 1970, Ieng Sary travelled to Hanoi where he organized the "Voice of the FUNK" radio station,⁴¹²⁷ then managed by Ieng Thirith. From Hanoi, Ieng Sary flew to Beijing to liaise with the Chinese Communist Party. From 1971 he was given a permanent base in Beijing.⁴¹²⁸ He concurrently became "Special Envoy of the Internal Resistance in Beijing" and was placed in charge of relations with Norodom Sihanouk.⁴¹²⁹ Ieng Sary's roles and functions while in Beijing are set out in the Ieng Sary section of the Closing Order under the heading "Returnees". During this period, Ieng Sary returned to Cambodia twice, once in 1973 when he accompanied Norodom Sihanouk to visit the "liberated zones" ⁴¹³⁰ and again in 1974.⁴¹³¹ He returned to Cambodia permanently in April 1975.⁴¹³²

1000.       During the CPK regime Ieng Sary used the revolutionary alias "Van".⁴¹³³