Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Hor Nam Hong produces another fake witness to the French Tribunal in Paris

Unofficial translation from French
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Paris 05 April 2010

Hor Nam Hong produces another fake witness to the French Tribunal in Paris

In the defamation lawsuit which opposes me to the Cambodian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Nam Hong at the French Tribunal in Paris, I have the proof that a new “witness” by the name of Sisowath Chittara, brought to the court by Mr. Hor Nam Hong, lied to the French Judges to try to “exonerate” the very same individual who was the “president of the committee of prisoners” of the Boeng Trabek jail camp, the very same camp where the parents of this “witness” were plucked from to be killed by the Khmer Rouge in April 1978.

During the appeal hearing on 25 March 2010, Sisowath Chittara told the Judges that, during the Khmer Rouge era, he was incarcerated in a “death camp” in Cambodia. He “explained” with confidence to the Judges how such a camp functioned and how the Khmer Rouge chose a leader among the camp prisoners, all with the aim of “proving” the innocence of Mr. Hor Nam Hong who, between 1977 and 1979, left his mark in the Boeng Trabek “re-education camp.”

While browsing through the book written by His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk titled “Prisoner of the Khmer Rouge” which he co-authored with Simonne Lacouture (Hachette, 1986), one learns the following:

1- Sisowath Chittara was never detained in the “death camp” as he claimed; furthermore, he was never detained in any Khmer Rouge camp at all. In reality, during all his stay in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge period, from April 17, 1976 to January 6, 1979, he always lived inside the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh with His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk and the latter’s close relatives. Thus, it was a false testimonial that he gave to the French Justice.

“Here [Beijing, April 17, 1976], [my son Norodom] Sihamoni met his younger brother Narindrapong, who came from Moscow, and his cousin Sisowath Chittara (the son of my cousin Sisowath Méthavi and Annette – Nannette Izzi, the elder sister of my wife Monique) who was studying in Beijing. All three of them – Sihamoni, Narindrapong and Chittara – were asked by the Khmer Rouge diplomats to immediately board a Chinese plane leaving for Phnom Penh” (Page 107).

“During all his stay in the “Democratic Kampuchea”, my son [Norodom Narindrapong] and his first cousin [Sisowath] Chittara stayed in the apartments of Her Majesty the Queen (their deceased Grandmother) at the Royal Palace.” (Page 159).

“Afternoon of January 06, 1979: I invited my family and my retinue to gather with their luggage (…). Narindrapong and Chittara, who were always disrespectful toward me, did not care to reply to my appeal – in order to let me feel that they only obeyed the orders of Angkar”. (Page 321).

“[Following the plane takeoff for Beijing], my wife, our son Sihamoni and all those who remained faithful to me smiled and cried at the same time (…). Sitting next to each other, Narindrapong and Chittara sneered at the sight of our emotion. Faithful servants of Angkar, they were extremely displeased that their “revered” masters spared us and freed us”. (Page 324).

2- Through his denunciation to the Khmer Rouge, Sisowath Chittara caused the death Mr. Ong Meang, one of the persons in the royal retinue whom H.M. Norodom Sihanouk called “the most faithful, the most devoted and the most courageous of my followers”. (Page 145).

“Between April 1976 and April 1977, my own son, Norodom Narindrapong and Sisowath Chittara, his first cousin, took over from the young communist Khmers in Beijing to inflict a moral torture on Ong Meang (…). They follow him into his room where these two oddballs would show up in the middle of the night! But more Machiavelian and dangerous deeds than this moral torture were to come. Each time they saw Chhorn Hay, the kammaphibal [cadre] [assigned to perform a surveillance on the royal family], or other Khmer Rouge waking pass their room, these two admirers of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary would shout: “Ong Meang is a CIA agent and he is also an agent of the French SDECE [Translation note: SDECE is the French Intelligence agency]” (…). This denunciation did not fall on deaf ears. On April 18, 1977, i.e. one day after the celebration of the national festival of the so-called “Democratic” Kampuchea, Ong Meang would disappear [forever]”. (Pages 147 and 148).

3- Sisowath Chittara proved his zeal to the Khmer Rouge and, thereby, inflicting pains to his companions of misfortune.

“At the Khemarin [a wing of the Royal Palace], between April 1976 [date of the arrival of the two cousins after the resignation of H.M. Norodom Sihanouk from his duty as Head of State] and January 1979 [date of the evacuation of the residents of the Royal Palace to China], Narindrapong and his cousin Chittara gave a hard time – even infernal – to me and my wife”. (Page 154).

“Narindrapong, my younger son, and Chittara, his first cousin and younger son of my wife Monique’s sister, understanding that I have no other future than an irreversible disgrace outlook, and maybe even a shameful death, overwhelmed us with their disdain”. (Page 150).

“[Narindrapong] adopted the communist mores which encourage children to spy and denounce their own parents”. (Page 150).

“Chittara satisfied himself by helping Narindrapong prepare his suitcases for a possible departure to the front [Narindrapong volunteered his service to the Angkar]. He was careful not to make a similar request to the Angkar by his dear cousin to whom he swore to follow everywhere ‘in life or in death’”. (Page 152).

“[In reality, during all his stay in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge], Narindrapong never left me, not even once. [It was the same form his cousin Chittara]”. (Page 159).

“Every day, [Sisowath] Chittara stole bottles of wine and alcohol from my cellar”. (Page 155).

“Therefore, it is scandalous that [during our incarceration at the Royal Palace] Narindrapong and Chittara insulted shamelessly people in my retinue, their own family, and they called them ‘dirty members of the Sangkum Chas [the old society]’, ‘rotten feudal,’ and [many other epithets] that I skip here, while calling themselves followers of the ‘pure and tough Khmer Rouge revolution’”. (Page 155)

“Narindrapong was acting as a conscientious accomplice and as a subservient propagandist to the torturers and killers of their own people”. (Page 160).

Conclusion: Sisowath Chittara’s behavior under the Khmer Rouge era resembled that of Hor Nam Hong. The least that can be said is the fact that both men showed their zeal and their meanness to make themselves look good to the Khmer Rouge and, in doing so, they inflicted pains on their companions of misfortune. To witness that one is now acting as the “witness” of the other fully illustrates the old adage: “Birds of the same feather flock together.”

Sam Rainsy

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

He must be named: Sisowath Cheater!

Anonymous said...

This idiot Chittara has lied the court. Therefore he should be punished by the court for his behavious.

Areak Prey

Anonymous said...

Mr. Sam Rainsy missing the points. This trial is not about who has the zeal with the KR, it is about whether Hor Nam Hong is the KR member or he is a prisoner, force into a supervisory role. It is common that a prison is chosen to supervise his fellow prisoners. However, he still a prisoner nonetheless, and thus he is not Part of the Khmer rouge central committee member.

Anonymous said...

In KR time it is not easy to be chosen to supervise others UNLESS the chosen one proved to be part of turturing or killing. in his position, until he was proven to commmit to AngKar he would not had been offered this very trusted position.

Come on the CHOSEN one, please do not try to avoid questions by ECCC,if you truely serve cambodians. Otherwise you were and are committed to crimes suspected.

kaun khmer

Anonymous said...

I agree with poster 9:41AM that Mr Sam Ransy must understand very well about this court case before he can win over Hor Nam Hong.
He must understand about Khmer Rouge actvities and their power strugles.
1-KR actvities:
a-First during their entering into PP to take power, they have tricked Cambodian National army and Cambodian public officials to get into their trap by pursuading them that they needed them to rebuild the country and insisted them to register their names and their position. They have then taken them truck load by truck load to massacre area.
b-After forcing them into the forests, they separated all youths from their parents. They killed most of them within months.
c-They separated husband from their wife and their young children and their elderlies. They forced them to work to death by starving them and by forcing them to work very long hours without foods and water. By 1977, millions have been killed.
d-by 1977, they arrested their own Khmer Rouge camarades by allowing Khmer Rouge cardres from Kampot and Takeo to Pursat and battambang and killed all their Pursat and Battambang cadres. They called Nearadey killed Peay Yoap.
e-by 1978, they used Kg Chhnang cadres to kill Nearadey and Peay Yoap
f-By the end of 1978, they moved about 300,000 from Svay Rieng and Prey Veng to Pursat and Battambang and have almost killed them all.
g-They have mobilised all over the country to dig big reservoirs and planned to kill all the prople in those reservoirs by the excuse that giving vietnam empty land rather with Cambodian people.
2-Power Struggle.
Khmer Rouge regime have started power struggle since Sihanouk declaring of his resignation from Khmer Rouge leadership from mid 1976. From there on Khmer Rouge leaders of all levels have struggled to each other from one area into another area. They killed the old one and replaced by new one.
In Phnom Penh, they have arrested Hu Nim and all his associated in 1977. Khmer Rouge leaders like Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, Nuon Chea, Khiev Sam Phann have maaintained their full control of Cambodia and have replaced all level of their adminsitrations with their loyal element.
Mr Hor Nam Hong has joined Khmer Rouge since 1972. He has replaced Mr Chao Seng as the Prison chef of Boeung Trabek by having Chao Seng sent to Tuol Sleng. That replacement proved that Mr Hor Nam Hong and his family were very loyal of Khmer Rouge and have proved that they were really very fanatic and were very strustfully of Pol Pot and his gang.
During khmer Rouge regime, only fanatic people can be promoted into Chef and deputy chef. If anyone proved to be useless and care too much to the people, that person will be excecuted.

Areak Prey

Anonymous said...

Whatever the thrust of this legal case is, concocting evidence through a false witness is still a serious travesty and an unpardonable contempt/ breach of court procedure in any fair legal opinion.

Further, if Mr Nam Hong is really being true to his own account that he was simply a prisoner forced into performing a supervisory role, then why the need to concoct his witness and mislead the court? Is this not in itself an offense under the French law?

And if Sihanouk's account is inaccurate, then who is telling the truth here, the former monarch or Mr Nam Hong? A safe assumption is that the former is a more reliable witness since a father should have no pressing motive for defaming the memory of his own (dead?) son and a nephew whatever differences there were between them at the time of their captivity beside highlighting a tragic division within the family.

The question that still needs to be asked and answered is: who was/is Hor Nam Hong? Why was a former prisoner of the KR so trusted by former KR cadres that he has been made a permanent fixture in their inner circle, including his long held portfolio as Foreign Minister?

Even if he was not a member of the KR's Central Committee, is that sufficient proof that he was not one of their committed members and therefore not a part of their murderous killing machine?

What exactly was he doing at that prison? What precisely did 'supervising' other prisoners entail?

Please bear in mind that 'Duch' also maintains that he too was 'forced' or compelled to perform his tasks as assigned by Angkar (the Party/ Organisation).


School of Vice

Anonymous said...

Come on Mr HOr!What do you have to hide.

It can't be that busy.
we know most of you have had plenty of time in KARAOKE.

Ask Mr Khiev,talking parrot the you would know. He is the very sleezy one,well known to Phnom Penh in fonling and touching young girls.

Anonymous said...

Pouch ah Sdarch jou mar seath...lngey lngeu kmean deung ey. Deir tea bouk pras Cambodian people. Ah Sisowath Chittara is the same for all the stupid Cambodian royal family.

Anonymous said...

Hor Nom Hong have been easily and used to laying to Cambodians in Cambodia for so long. Now he extend his lying to the French court. French judges should not be so stupid to believe this lying bastard so easily. Also French court should charged Hor Nom Hong and his withness of perjury, lying under oath.

9:41AM and 11:05AM, You missed the point yourself! The fact is Hor Nam Hong have produced fake withness. Lying under oath is a serious crime in the TRUE court of law. This is not CPP's court in Cambodia.

Hor Nom Hong words and his withness are as fake as he is Khmer! Everyone knows he's really Youn.....

Anonymous said...

Did Mr Sam present this "proof" to the court of law? If he did not, why not? Or is he just a few steps late behind the event as usual?

It seems he is forever stuck with KI forum, which can not really help his hopeless case.

Kuoy Pichet

Anonymous said...

We all has respected your his grand father, Sisowath as Khmer King. Why this guy (Chittara) use Sisowath name to protect the killer and lies France judge or you selled yourself for Hor nam 5, forgotten wher you are from? As Proof: You must to know that killing in Cambodia is also a part of Khmer king policy with communist ideology. As liar, the France Judge must punish him with the high price.

Anonymous said...

Hor Nam Hong was not protected by Mao Tse Toung like Sihanouk, anyone will do anything to survive, he should be killed to be innocent ?

Anonymous said...

The problem is, Mr. Sam Rainsy never live under the Khmer Rouge regime, he can never understand the hardship and the struggle to survive. Hor Nam Hong would not dare to refuse the supervisory job in order for his family to survive. He still a prisoner of the KR. That is the point.

Anonymous said...

Hor Nam Hong was a dorector of the killing prison ordered by his Angkar Hanoi.

Anonymous said...

12:49AM
You are right on, Sir. He sent away people to be killed. A very powerful figure, his wife and son combined, there and then. Should had been prosecuted in 1979, but rather selected to serve as today's foreign minister. It's quite fishy, isn't it. He should be call into question by court.

Anonymous said...

There is no question in my mind, Hor 5 Hong was Hanoi's high level agent who got protection from day one, and went on to become today's foreign minister. This man has plenty of blood on his hands - those who were on his death list.

Anonymous said...

Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime

Members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...

Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention


Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime

Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...

Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.

"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
  
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union 
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son 
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.  
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation

Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.

Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky.  Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground. 
Source:  Lightning, Discovery Channel

Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters. 
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.

Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.

Anonymous said...

Which one of these Khmer Rouge(s) list below is a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison B32?

a) Pol Pot
b) Nuon Chea
c) Ta Mok 
d) Khieu Samphan 
e) Son Sen 
f) Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
g) Ieng Sary 
h) Ieng Thearith
i) Chea Sim
j) Heng Samrin
k) Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
l) Keat Chhon
m) Ouk Bunchhoeun
n) Sim Ka
o) Hun Sen

Source:
DC-CAM
Document Center of Cambodia

Fact:
During the Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime;
There are 196 prisons.
There are 196 prison chiefs.
There are 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples killed by the Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime.

Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka
Hun Sen...

Kaing Guek Eav is a prison chief of Toul Sleng prison S21.
Source:
DC-CAM
Document Center of Cambodia

The UN back Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC) must indict 195 other prison chiefs.

"I will not allow the UN back Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC) to indict more Khmer Rouge Regime leaders, I rather let the court (KRT ECCC) fail.  Indict more Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders will lead the country into a civil war."
Samak Mith Hun Sen
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime's leader

Samak Mith Hun Sen will not allow the UN back Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC) to indict more Khmer Rouge Regime leaders who is responsible for killing 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples.

Samak Mith Hun Sen threaten to turn Cambodia back into the Killing Fields all over again.

War with whom?
War with innocent Khmer peoples without weapon?

Once a Khmer Rouge, always a Khmer Rouge.

A good Khmer Rouge(s) is a dead Khmer Rouge(s)

Khmer Rouge(s) continue to kill innocent Khmer peoples.

Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...

"(Samak Mith) Duch (Kaing Guek Eav) 19 years sentence is too short and doesn't fit his crimes."
Samak Mith Yaem (Hor Namhong)
Prison Chief of Boeung Trabek prison B32

What's Hor Namhong trying to do is, he want the whole world to know that he is not a Khmer Rouge and a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison.

Hor Namhong is a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison B32.
Source:
Phnom Penh Post

Hor Namhong said to the French judge that he is not a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison, in fact members of his family was killed by Khmer Rouge(s).

Hor Namhong can lies all he want, at the end, he got summoned and will get indict, prosecute, convict and sentence.

Criminals likes to lies.

The place where criminals lies the most is inside the court room in front of the judge(s).

On October 7, 2009 Chea Sim, Heng Samrin, Hor Namhong, Keat Chhon, Ouk Bunchhoeun and Sim Ka has been summoned by the UN back Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC).