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

C. KHIEU SAMPHAN⁴⁶¹⁶

 ^{Roles and Functions}

 

 

The Offices of 870

1139. From 9 October 1975 until the end of the CPK regime, Khieu Samphan was a leading cadre of the CPK Centre unit officially designated the Political Office 870. He has stated he was one of only two cadre assigned there, the other being the office's original chairman, Soeu Vasy alias Doeun,⁴⁶⁷³ a fellow Central Committee member who also regularly attended Standing Committee meetings. Duch states that Khieu Samphan took over the role as Chairman of Political Office 870 in 1976 when Doeun left the role to take control of the Ministry of Commerce.⁴⁶⁷⁴ Duch further states that Khieu Samphan's position as Chairman was secured in 1977 when Doeun was arrested and sent to S-21.⁴⁶⁷⁵      , who held various senior roles in B-1⁴⁶⁷⁶ and who regularly personally delivered messages from B-1 and Ieng Sary to Khieu Samphan, corroborates that Khieu Samphan replaced Doeun as the Chairman in late 1977 or early 1978.⁴⁶⁷⁷ Another witness who worked within B-1 also corroborates this.⁴⁶⁷⁸ In an interview in 1999, Ieng Sary confirmed that Khieu Samphan was the head of Political Office 870⁴⁶⁷⁹ although he has recently denied making this statement.⁴⁶⁸⁰

1140. Additionally, Khieu Samphan may have had responsibility within Office S-71. One witness states that Pang, the head of S-71, took his orders from Khieu Samphan and other senior leaders according to their expertise.⁴⁶⁸¹

1141. Khieu Samphan has consistently denied that he was ever the Chairman of Political Office 870.⁴⁶⁸² He has stated that his duties within the offices of 870 were limited to economic matters, the distribution of goods around Cambodia, and the maintenance of relations with King Norodom Sihanouk.⁴⁶⁸³ One witness who worked as a telegram translator in Sector 105 and a courier for the Party Centre stated that he was required to send all telegrams relating to "equipment, healthcare or social affairs and matters other than security" directly to Khieu Samphan at Office 870.⁴⁶⁸⁴