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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).
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