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Given the way of the Khmer Rouge Regime was organized, a decision of murder the
prisoners probably stemmed from ‘Brother Number 01 ’( Pol Pot), or at least met
with his approval, even no written proof of his approval.
This letter was written by Duc and
sent to Sun Sen (See large
picture)
These display how
the Upper Brothers, Son Sen and Duch were responsible for ten of
thousands prisoners murdered mercilessly at S-21 and Cheung Ek.
These display how
the Upper Brothers, Son Sen and Duch were responsible for ten of
thousands prisoners murdered mercilessly at S-21 and Cheung Ek.
Here is a translation text from the letter above:
Dear Brother Sun Sen,
I would like to report about the enemy forces to you.
1- This soldier is located in 22nd Region and both of them are in
revolution and old Kok Ming armed forces at Pear Reang District.
2- Mr. Toum is the commander of this armed force.
3- Comrade Ang She Pheng said firmly that he is a revolutionist.
The Khmer Rough leader who
are alive, nowadays
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Pol Pot
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Born:
May 1925 (?)
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Birthplace: Kompong Thong Province, Cambodia
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Died:
15 April 1998
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Best
Known As: Ruthless Cambodian communist leader
Pol Pot and his army, called the Khmer Rouge, came to
power in Cambodia (Kampuchea) in 1975. He was named prime
minister of the new communist government in 1976 and began a
program of violent reform. The Khmer Rouge abolished
currency, religion and private property and evacuated cities
in the hopes of creating a
Maoist agrarian society free of Western influence
(though, like Mao, Pol Pot had studied the works of
V. I. Lenin and
Karl Marx in Europe). Under his regime, forced labor,
executions and famine killed between 1.5 and 2 million
Cambodians (more than 20% of the population). When Vietnam
invaded Cambodia in 1979, Pol Pot was ousted from the
capital, Phnom Penh, but continued to lead the Khmer Rouge
army in the countryside (with support from China and the
U.S.). He resigned as leader of the army in 1985, and by the
late '90s a split in the Khmer Rouge caused his former
comrades to turn on him and imprison him for murder. He died
unrepentant in 1998, the cause of death still a mystery:
some say he had a heart attack, some say he was murdered and
some say he killed himself. In 2001 it was announced that
his final hideout would be turned into a museum.
Pol Pot is frequently named among the baddest guys in
history, along with
Joseph Stalin and
Adolf Hitler... He was also referred to by his followers
as "Brother Number One"... the countryside of Cambodia was
dubbed "the killing fields" because of the Khmer Rouge
atrocities.
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Nuon Chea
Known as “Brother Number Two,” Nuon Chea was born in 1925 in
a part of Cambodia that was later administered by Thailand
(1940-1946). After attending university in Bangkok, he
joined the Communist Party of Thailand in 1950. A few months
later he returned home and transferred his membership to the
Indochinese Communist Party.
In 1960, Nuon Chea
became a member of the Cambodian communist party, the deputy
secretary of its Central Committee, and a member of its
Standing Committee. He held those posts continuously
thereafter.
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Ieng Sary
Born in 1926 in Cochinchina (a French colony in what is
southern Vietnam today), Ieng Sary became a member of the
Communist Party of France while he was a student in Paris
during the 1950s, In 1960, he joined the Central Committee
of the Cambodian Communist Party and in 1963, its Standing
Committee. While the government was cracking down on
communists in 1963, he and Pol Pot fled from Phnom Penh to
Vietnam. In August 1971, Ieng Sary was sent to Beijing as
the “Special Emissary of the Section of the Royal Government
Inside the Country.”
He also handled the CPK's
international relations.
He returned to
Cambodia approximately one week after the CPK victory on
April 17, 1975, and in August 1975 he was formally named a
Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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Khieu Samphan
Born in Svay Rieng province around 1931, Khieu Samphan
earned a doctorate in France; his thesis was on Cambodia’s
economy. He was elected to the national assembly in 1962 and
1966. He became a Central Committee member in 1971 and was
designated as State Presidium chairman of Democratic
Kampuchea in 1976, succeeding then Prince Norodom Sihanouk
as chief of state. In 1977, Khieu Samphan reportedly became
chairman of “Office 870,” which operated as a form of
cabinet for the CPK Central Committee. While this was not
formally a decision-making post, the chairman of Office 870
had the duty “to keep track of the implementation” of the
Standing Committee's policy decisions.
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Duch
served as chairman of S-21 and secretary of its party branch
from 1976 to 1978. At S-21, he was responsible for many of
the interrogations and executions of at least 14,000 people
who were held in that prison.
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These comrades will be sentenced at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. The comrades
include leaders such as Khieu Samphan and brother number II Nuon Chea. Each of
them executed and killed hundreds and thousands of people.
Questons that have been asked about the geocide and answers received from the
comrades and their leaders:
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Question: Why did you kill
people?
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Answer: Because Angkar
asked us to do so. (or) Because they were the traitors.
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Question: Are you guilty of
genocide?
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Answer: We are not!
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Question: Who is
responsible for the genocide?
Answer: We do not know! |
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