01005801 Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313 Office.757 Divisions were re-organised and re-named on more than one occasion after 1975.758 241. The role of the RAK was set out in Article 19 of the DK Constitution: its functions were to “defend the State power of the Kampuchean people and of […] Kampuchea”, and to “help build a country growing more prosperous every day to improve and develop the people’s standard of living”.759 However, the RAK was very much an army of the CPK rather than the state institutions. The CPK Statute specified that the RAK “must be in very (sic) part under the absolute leadership monopoly of the Communist Party of Kampuchea”.760 The CPK magazine Revolutionary Flag similarly described the RAK as “pure” and “resolutely committed to the Party”. 761 5.3.2. Structure of the RAK 242. As with the civilian administrative structures of the CPK, the RAK was arranged in a pyramidal hierarchy. At the top (albeit subject to the supervision of the Central Committee and the Military Committee) was the General Staff. 762 The General Staff was in overall command of the Centre Divisions and dealt with military affairs such as supply, logistics, arms, personnel, communications and information.763 243. Immediately below the General Staff were the Centre Divisions and independent regiments, each of which was led by a Division Commander.764 The 757 T. 28 March 2012 (KAING Guek Eav), pp. 28, 46; SOKH Chhay Interview Record, E3/5537, 27 October 2009, p. 4, ERN (En) 00404293; Book by D. CHANDLER: Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison, E3/1684, p. 14, ERN (En) 00192693. 758 See e.g. POL Nhan Interview Record, E3/5554, 31 August 2009, p. 4, ERN (En) 00377400; CHHOUK Rin Interview Record, E3/361, 9 April 2008, p. 6, ERN (En) 00766452; IENG Phan Interview Record, E3/419, 23 November 2009, p. 4, ERN (En) 00411005. 759 DK Constitution, E3/259, undated, pp. 5-6, ERN (En) 00184837-00184838. 760 CPK Statute, E3/130, undated, p. 25, Article 27, ERN (En) 00184046. 761 Revolutionary Flag, E3/25, December 1976-January 1977, p. 15, ERN (En) 00491408, ERN (Kh) 00063016-0063018. The Chamber relies on the original Khmer document. See also, DK Telegram, E3/915, 31 December 1977, ERN (En) 00184995, in which “we who have the duty to defend the maritime spearhead” – i.e. Division 164, the navy – vows to “fashion forces who are a tool absolutely to defend the Party” as well as the State. 762 T. 11 July 2013 (Stephen HEDER), p. 81; T. 26 March 2012 (KAING Guek Eav), p. 27. 763 T. 4 October 2012 (MEAS Voeun), p. 11; T. 10 January 2013 (UNG Ren), p. 86; LOHN Dos Interview Record, E3/426, 23 July 2009, pp. 2-4, ERN (En) 00364070-00364072; KE Pich Vannak Interview Record, E3/35, 4 June 2009, p. 8, ERN (En) 00346152; KOY Mon Interview Record, E3/369, 29 May 2008, pp. 3-4, ERN (En) 00272715-00272716; RAK General Staff Logistics Committee Report, E3/1167, 29 March 1977; RAK General Staff Statistics, E3/1048, 7 April 1977. 764 T. 4 October 2012 (MEAS Voeun), p. 11. Case 002/01, Judgement, 7 August 2014 - Public 134