01005715 Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313 89. Around February 1962, Party Secretary TOU Samuth was probably arrested and then disappeared, necessitating the appointment of a new Party Secretary during the Second Party Congress held in February 1963 on Charles de Gaulle Street in Phnom Penh.235 Members of the Standing Committee at the time were POL Pot, SAO Phim, IENG Sary and NUON Chea.236 Other members present included Keu (alias Sophal), Chong, VORN Vet, MUOL Sambath alias ROS Nhim, Ta Mok, and MA Mang.237 It is possible that SON Sen was present, although NUON Chea’s statements in this regard are not entirely clear.238 The Second Party Congress appointed POL Pot as the Party Secretary and NUON Chea as Deputy Party Secretary. It reaffirmed the use of political and armed revolutionary violence.239 In 1963, together with other individuals, IENG Sary and POL Pot, both listed as “progressive”, were summoned by NORODOM Sihanouk under the pretext of forming a new government. Fearing arrest they joined the underground near the Vietnamese border.240 90. In 1965, POL Pot travelled to Vietnam and China to unveil the recently- formulated strategic lines of the CPK.241 Although the Vietnamese were unhappy that the CPK failed to consult them in establishing the CPK Statute, the Communist Party of China considered that the CPK party lines were in accordance with doctrine and Cambodian Communist Party to seek power through elections thereby avoiding class struggle and the use of revolutionary force. In support of this strong recommendation they referred to Khrushchev’s views regarding “the parliamentary road to socialism” espoused during the 20 th Party Congress of the Soviets in Moscow.) 235 T. 12 January 2012 (NUON Chea), p. 10; T. 5 December 2011 (NUON Chea), pp. 76-78; NUON Chea Interview by KHEM Ngun, E3/3, Undated, pp. 14-15, ERN (En) 00184665-66; IENG Sary Interview by Stephen HEDER, E3/89, 17 December 1996, p. 34, ERN (En) 00417632; Article by NUON C.: Past Struggle of Our Kampuchean Peasants From 1954 to 1970, E3/131, pp. 14-15, ERN (En) 00716422-23 (referring to third general assembly, but in 1963). 236 NUON Chea Interview by KHEM Ngun, E3/3, Undated, p. 16, ERN (En) 00184667; T. 12 January 2012 (NUON Chea), p. 15. 237 Article by NUON C.: Past Struggle of Our Kampuchean Peasants From 1954 to 1970, E3/131, pp. 15-16, ERN (En) 00716423-24. 238 T. 12 January 2012 (NUON Chea), p. 16; NUON Chea Interview by Khem Ngun, E3/3, Undated, ERN (En) 00184667; Article by NUON C.: Past Struggle of Our Kampuchean Peasants From 1954 to 1970, E3/131, pp. 16-17. 239 Revolutionary Flag, E169/4/1.1.2, Dec 1975-Jan 1976, p. 7, ERN (En) 00865697; T. 7 May 2013 (Philip SHORT), pp. 26-28 (Sihanouk allowed no room for opposition so violence was the only option available to the Khmer Rouge). 240 T. 20 July 2012 (Expert David CHANDLER), pp. 65-67; See also, Book by KHIEU S.: Considerations on the History of Cambodia From the Early Stage to the Period of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/16, pp. 17-18, ERN (En) 00498236-37. 241 T. 13 December 2011, p. 26 (NUON Chea); T. 31 January 2012, p. 17 (NUON Chea); Article by NUON C.: Past Struggle of Our Kampuchean Peasants From 1954 to 1970, E3/131, p. 17, ERN (En) 00716425 (POL Pot travelled to North Vietnam to seek contacts for the party and to China to explain the movement). Case 002/01, Judgement, 7 August 2014 - Public 48