01005732 Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313 and implementation of the policy of re-education of bad elements and killing of enemies, and its extent, will be the subject of Case 002/02. 3.3.4. Targeting of Specific Groups – Cham, Vietnamese, Buddhists, and former officials of the Khmer Republic 119. The Chamber notes that while a policy of targeting Cham, Buddhist and Vietnamese is alleged in the Closing Order341, limited evidence has been heard to date on this policy. It will therefore be examined in detail in Case 002/02 and any subsequent trial.342 3.3.4.1. Targeting of Khmer Republic Soldiers and Officials 120. In the months leading to the final assault on Phnom Penh, the FUNK struck a conciliatory tone in radio broadcasts directed at Khmer Republic officials and soldiers, informing them that they could join the Khmer Rouge should they defect.343 to 800 Hanoi Khmer returned to join the Cambodian revolution in 1970 many of whom were purged); T. 19 June 2013 (NOU Mao), pp. 31-34, 82 (Ta Mok told the witness that 2,000 or 3,000 Khmer-Viet Minh who had returned to Cambodia to help fight LON Nol forces were gathered up on orders from the upper echelon,disappeared and probably died); T. 10 July 2013 (Stephen HEDER), pp. 102-105; Report by S. HEDER and M. MATSUSHITA: Interviews with Kampuchean Refugees at ThaiCambodia Border, E3/1714, February-March 1980, pp. 33-34, ERN (En) 00170724-25 (“We called those Khmers from Hanoi to come to study and someone led them away […] And so we were able to get rid of almost all of them. Very few realized what was happening in time and escaped to Vietnam”); Book by B. KIERNAN: How Pol Pot Came to Power: A History of Communism in Kampuchea, 19301975, E3/1815, 1985, pp. 372-373, ERN (En) 00487492-93 (“the Vietnamese asked the Khmers working with them [in Kampong Thom] if they wished to transfer to CPK units. Most volunteered to do so, but not long afterwards two of them returned with the news that the others had been executed because they allegedly had ‘Vietnamese minds’”). 341 Closing Order, D427, 15 September 2010 (“Closing Order”), para. 205. 342 Decision on Additional Severance of Case 002 and Scope of Case 002/02, E301/9/1, 4 April 2014, p. 21; Annex, List of paragraphs and portions of the Closing Order relevant to Case 002/02, paras (2)(iv)(a), (b), and (c). 343 KHIEU Samphan Issues Statement on Current Situation (in FBIS Collection), E3/118, 1 April 1975, ERN (En) 00166897-98 (“The NUFC, RGNUC and CPNLAF would like to appeal to all officers, men and members of armed organizations of all categories of the traitorous clique on all battlefields, including those around Phnom Penh and in some provinces under temporary enemy control, to lay down their weapons immediately and join the NUFC at once. Functionaries of all ranks are asked to immediately stop working for the seven traitors and join the NUFC. All brother soldiers and civilians who have been forced by the archantinational, archfascist and archrotten clique of traitors to serve them and the U.S. imperialists’ aggressive war: Now the seven traitors have already forsaken you; you must follow the path of honor and national solidarity by joining the NUFC. The NUFC, RGNUC, CPNLAF and the Cambodian people in the entire liberated zone would like to appeal to you [word indistinct] and congratulate you for enduring and overcoming untold misfortune over the past 5 years. The NUFC and RGNUC have ordered all front organizations and all CPNLAF units to warmly welcome you.”); KHIEU Samphan Appeals to Phnom Penh Citizens to Join NUFC (in FBIS Collection), E3/118, 14 April 1975, ERN (En) 00166948 (“[O]n behalf of the NUFC, headed by Chief Case 002/01, Judgement, 7 August 2014 - Public 65

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