01005787 Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313 struggle.666 Initially, there were six zones: the North Zone (given the code number 304667), the Northwest Zone (code number 560668), the Northeast Zone (code number 108, later changed to 109669), the Southwest Zone (405670), the East Zone (203671) and the Special Zone (which comprised the area around Phnom Penh).672 216. After the capture of Phnom Penh in 1975, the Zone boundaries were redrawn: a new West Zone (code number 401) was added, and the Special Zone around Phnom Penh was dissolved and absorbed into neighbouring Zones. 673 The Zones did not follow existing provincial boundaries precisely; for example, the East Zone encompassed Prey Veng and Svay Rieng as well as parts of Kratie, Kandal and Kampong Cham Provinces.674 By 1975 there were also a number of autonomous or ‘specially-assigned’ Sectors– namely Preah Vihear (code number 103), Mondulkiri (105), Siem Reap/Oddar Meanchey (106), Kratie (505) and the city of Kampong Som – which did not fall within any Zone and which answered directly to the Party 666 DK Ministry of Education: Political Geography of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/1398, 1977, pp. 11-12, ERN (En) 00814510-00814511. 667 T. 21 August 2012 (KIM Vun), p. 96; T. 3 July 2013 (EK Hen), p. 19. 668 Map of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/475, undated, ERN P 00000002; Map of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/476, undated, ERN (En) 00295143. See also, DK Report, 29 May 1977, E3/179 (Zone report from ‘Office 560’). 669 SA Sarin DC-Cam Interview, E3/4596, 5-6 May 2009, p. 58, ERN (En) 00739550; KHIEU Samphan Interview Transcript, E3/4005, undated, ERN (En) 00788908; Map of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/475, undated, ERN P 00000002; Map of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/476, undated, ERN (En) 00295143. 670 Map of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/475, undated, ERN P 00000002; Map of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/476, undated, ERN (En) 00295143. 671 T. 26 July 2012 (ROCHOEM Ton alias PHY Phuon), pp. 33-34; T. 3 July 2013 (EK Hen), p. 22. 672 T. 29 August 2012 (NORNG Sophang), pp. 76-77; Report by S. HEDER and M. MATSUSHITA: Interviews with Kampuchean Refugees at Thai-Cambodia Border, E3/1714, February-March 1980, p. 52, ERN (En) 00170743; IENG Sary Interview by Stephen HEDER, E3/89, 17 December 1996, p. 3, ERN (En) 00417601; Book by B. KIERNAN: The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79, E3/1593, pp. 86-87, ERN (En) 00678538; Book by E. BECKER: When The War Was Over, E3/20, 1986, p. 173, ERN (En) 00237878. 673 T. 8 October 2012 (MEAS Voeun), p. 37; DK Ministry of Education Document: Political Geography of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/1398, 1977, p. 12, ERN (En) 00814511; Map of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/475, undated, ERN P 00000002; Map of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/476, undated, ERN (En) 00295143; Book by E. BECKER: When The War Was Over, E3/20, 1986, p. 175, ERN (En) 00237880; Book by B. KIERNAN: The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79, E3/1593, p. 94, ERN (En) 00678542. See also, MEAS Voeun Interview Record, E3/73, 4 March 2010, p. 3, ERN (En) 00491661 (stating that ‘M-401’ was the office of Ta Si, Secretary of the West Zone: see Section 5: Administrative Structures, para. 220). 674 DK Ministry of Education Document: Political Geography of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/1398, 1977, p. 12, ERN (En) 00814511; Map of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/476, undated, ERN (En) 00295143. Case 002/01, Judgement, 7 August 2014 - Public 120