01005759 Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313 thousands of people fleeing from refugee camps in Takhmau towards the centre of Phnom Penh a rocket attack by the Khmer Rouge.484 Civil Party MEAS Saran, a nurse working in a hospital in Borei Keila, at a hospital designated to receive victims of the rocket attacks, testified that people were terrified by the Khmer Rouge bombing attacks and the influx of people from the countryside.485 164. On 1 April 1975, after strategic military losses, President LON Nol was persuaded to resign and went into exile.486 Two days later, KHIEU Samphan issued a statement announcing that the “seven LON Nol traitors” had fled the country, but indicating the “U.S. Imperialists” were attempting to prolong the war by resorting to negotiation.487 January 1975, ERN (En) 00166683 (Three rockets hit Phnom Penh killing one man and wounding three, all Cambodian civilians); Rockets Land Near Phnom Penh Royal Palace (in FBIS Collection), E3/30, 13 January 1975, ERN (En) 00166696 (reporting nine people injured when rockets hit a Buddhist monastery and that in the previous three days, 14 rockets hit the capital killing seven people and injuring 24); Major Attack Ordered to Stop Red Khmer Rockets (in FBIS Collection), E3/30, 16 January 1975, ERN (En) 00166711 (rockets fired at Pochentong Airport wounded 22 people); AFP Reports Battle Situation For 19, 20 January, 30 Killed at Capital (in FBIS Collection), E3/30, 20 January 1975, ERN (En) 00166712 (30 people were killed and 75 wounded by heavy attacks; 40 rockets were fired on Phnom Penh and its airport, one hitting the central market place and around the electric power plant); AFP Reports Rockets Hit Phnom Penh, Pochentong Airport (in FBIS Collection), E3/30, 21 January 1975, ERN (En) 00166715 (Four killed and 11 injured by rockets which hit Phnom Penh and Pochentong Airport during fighting); Kampot Port Under Siege, Phnom Penh Airport Shelled (in FBIS Collection), E3/30, 29 January 1975, ERN (En) 00166731 (four killed and 10 wounded when rockets struck about a dozen houses in the northern fringes of the city); Phnom Penh Papers on US Aid, Superpower Collusion (in FBIS Collection), E3/488, 16 February 1975, ERN (En) 00166755 (Three were killed and 10 injured during Red Khmer rocket attacks on Pochentong Airport); AFP Interviews Gen Sosthene Fernandez (in FBIS Collection), E3/488, 25 February 1975, ERN (En) 00166769 (30 rockets fell on Phnom Penh and Pochentong, wounding about 25 people); AFP Reports More Embassies Evacuating Personnel (in FBIS Collection), E3/120, 9 March 1975 ERN (En) 00166803 (15 killed and 23 wounded after Khmer Rouge insurgents blasted Phnom Penh and Pochentong Airport with rocket fire); Government Troops Retake Tuol Leap (in FBIS Collection), E3/120, 15 March 1975, ERN (En) 00166828 (Khmer Rouge rockets fired into Pochentong and southern Phnom Penh killed two and wounded 15); Rockets Hit Long Boret’s Home, Just Miss US Embassy (in FBIS Collection), E3/120, 20 March 1975, ERN (En) 00166851 (20 insurgent rockets slammed into Phnom Penh killing four and wounding 15); Takhmau Abandoned (in FBIS Collection), E3/118, 15 April 1975, ERN (En) 00166958 (shelling from the far bank of the Bassac River killed and wounded large numbers of people). 484 T. 28 January 2013 (Al ROCKOFF), pp. 93, T. 29 January 2013 (Al ROCKOFF), pp. 8-9, 46-47. 485 T. 22 November 2012 (MEAS Saran), p. 19; T. 14 November 2012 (MEAS Saran), pp. 93-94, 96, 99. 486 Lon Nol, Delegation Leave Phnom Penh for Indonesia, U.S. (in FBIS Collection), E3/118, 1 April 1975, p. ERN (En) 00166888; Revolutionary Flag, E3/11, September 1977, ERN (En) 00486248; Book by P. SHORT: Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare, E3/9, 2004, p. 263, ERN (En) 00396471; Book by S. SCHANBERG: Cambodia Diary 1975, E236/1/4/3.1, ERN (En) 00898243, 00898264. 487 KHIEU Samphan Congratulates CPNLAF on Neak Luong Victories (in FBIS Collection), E3/118, 3 April 1975, ERN (En) 00166923-25 (naming the seven members of the LON Nol regime as traitors: LON Nol, SIRIK Matak, SON Ngoc Thanh, CHENG Heng, IN Tam, LONG Boret, SOSTHENE Case 002/01, Judgement, 7 August 2014 - Public 92