01005763 Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313 incompatible with building socialism including former Khmer Republic officials and, it is alleged, Buddhists, the Cham and the Vietnamese.497 170. On 17 April 1975, the Khmer Rouge moved at least two million people from Phnom Penh.498 The evacuees were provided insufficient, if any, accommodation and assistance, resulting in deaths and suffering.499 On and after 17 April 1975, people were also displaced from various provincial towns throughout Cambodia, including Kampong Speu,500 Takeo,501 Kampot,502 Sihanoukville (previously, Kampong Som),503 Kampong Thom,504 Pailin,505 Kampong Cham,506 Kampong Chhnang,507 497 See Section 3: Historical Background, paras 119-127; Section 10: Movement of the Population (Phase One), paras 501-511, 517, 567-574; Section 11: Movement of the Population (Phase Two), paras 613-623, 649-657; Section 12: Tuol Po Chrey, paras 683-687; Section 14: Joint Criminal Enterprise, paras 731, 783-785, 787, 789-790, 795, 805, 811-837; See also, Closing Order, paras 740841 (Concerning the treatment of Chams, Buddhists and Vietnamese). 498 See Section 10: Movement of the Population (Phase One), paras 520, 547. 499 See Section 10: Movement of the Population (Phase One), paras 521-524, 547-552, . 500 T. 11 January 2013 (CHHAOM Se), pp. 47-50. 501 T. 11 January 2013 (CHHAOM Se), pp. 47-50; BUN Thien Interview Record, E3/5498, 17 August 2009, pp. 5-6, ERN (En) 00384399-400 (All people in Takeo Town were evacuated around 18 or 19 April 1975). 502 SOKH Chhien Interview Record, E3/428, 19 August 2009, p. 5, ERN (En) 00374949; KHUN Kim Interview Record, E3/360, 30 April 2008, p. 3, ERN (En) 00268854. 503 DANH Nhor Interview Record, E3/5197, 15 July 2008, pp. 2-3, ERN (En) 00275030-1 (Around 17 April 1975, people were evacuated from Sihanoukville (previously called Kampong Som) to Kampot); KHIM Khen Interview Record, E3/5190, 2 July 2008, p. 3, ERN (En) 00274658 (After 17 April 1975, people were evacuated from Kampong Som to Prey Nob); LOEUNG Bunny Interview Record, E3/5543, 11 September 2009, p. 3, ERN (En) 00384778 (On 17 April 1975, Khmer Rouge soldiers evacuated people from Sihanoukville to the west). 504 KROEM Samy Hors Civil Party Application, E3/4933, 3 August 2009, pp. 2-3, ERN (En) 00890979-80 (describing evacuation of Kampong Thom in April 1975); VANN Theng Interview Record, E3/5249, 8 October 2008, p. 2, ERN (En) 00231858. 505 THACH Sokh Interview Record, E3/5230, 15 December 2008, p. 3, ERN (En) 00279242 (On 17 April 1975 the witness was evacuated from Pailin to Battambang); Refugee Accounts, E3/4590, pp. 305-306, ERN (En) 00820623-24 (On 26 April 1975, the Khmer Rouge ordered the entire population of Pailin, by means of a radio car, to leave the town and that each person should take only a few items); PRUM Sarun Interview Record, E3/5187, 18 June 2008, p. 2, ERN (En) 00274177 (a former LON Nol soldier and a farmer living at Krapeu Cheung village, noted that after 17 April 1975, the Khmer Rouge set up people’s units and teams to perform labour, building dams and digging canals, such as the Kamping Puoy Dam. There were 90 people in his group including evacuees from Pailin, Phnom Penh and Kampong Cham). 506 TAY Kimhuon Interview Record, E3/5257, 24 November 2008, p. 3, ERN (En) 00251014 (After taking Kampong Cham, the people were evacuated). 507 T. 6 June 2013 (Sydney SCHANBERG), pp. 23-26 (Kampong Chhnang was ‘evacuated’ by 23 April 1975); CHAN Loeu Interview Record, E3/5233, 23 December 2008, pp. 2-3, ERN (En) 00279260-61 (On 17 April 1975, the witness, who lived at Taing Kruos Kaet Village, saw people who had been evacuated including from Kampong Chhnang); LOEUNG Kimchhong Interview Record, E3/5272, 11 February 2009, pp. 2-3, ERN (En) 00290655-56 (All the people of Kampong Chhnang Town were told by loudspeaker to leave). Case 002/01, Judgement, 7 August 2014 - Public 96

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