01005716 Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313 this enabled the CPK to liaise with other communist parties at the time.242 Around this time, the CPK headquarters of Office 100 moved to Ratanakiri.243 91. In 1967, there was a spontaneous uprising in Samlaut village in Battambang that was the result of land disputes caused by members of the army and civil servants taking land from Samlaut villagers.244 The party leadership considered it was premature to initiate an armed revolution at the time.245 Nonetheless, the 1967 Samlaut rebellion in Battambang marked the beginning of armed struggle and civil war in Cambodia.246 92. Because he never thought the peasants would rebel against him, NORODOM Sihanouk was very upset by the Samlaut rebellion and moved to quash it with great force.247 He blamed the influence of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and ordered the Cambodian-Chinese Friendship Association, of which HU Nim was the President, dissolved.248 KHIEU Samphan, who had joined the CPK with HU Nim, was threatened with arrest and to be brought to the military court under the pretext that he was a ringleader of the rebellion.249 NUON Chea then took KHIEU Samphan, HU Nim and the other intellectuals, including HOU Youn, to the forest because they were now in danger in Phnom Penh.250 242 T. 13 December 2011 (NUON Chea), p. 26; 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. 243 T. 12 January 2012 (NUON Chea), pp. 18-21 (discussing his travels to Office 100, “As I recall it, they moved to Rattanakiri before 1966”). 244 T. 13 December 2011 (NUON Chea), pp. 10-16; T. 19 July 2012 (David CHANDLER), pp. 34-35; T. 20 July 2012 (David CHANDLER), pp. 71-72; Article by NUON C.: Past Struggle of Our Kampuchean Peasants From 1954 to 1970, E3/131, p. 17, ERN (En) 00716425. 245 Article by NUON C.: Past Struggle of Our Kampuchean Peasants From 1954 to 1970, E3/131, p. 17, ERN (En) 00716425. 246 T. 19 July 2012 (David CHANDLER), pp. 34-35. 247 Book by KHIEU S.: Cambodia’s Recent History and the Reasons Behind the Decisions I Made, E3/18, p. 32, ERN (En) 00103739; T. 13 December 2011, p. 88 (KHIEU Samphan); T. 13 December 2011, pp. 11-12 (NUON Chea); T. 19 July 2012 (David CHANDLER), p. 35. 248 Book by KHIEU S.: Cambodia’s Recent History and the Reasons Behind the Decisions I Made, E3/18, p. 32, ERN (En) 00103739. 249 T. 13 December 2011, pp. 87-88, 91 (KHIEU Samphan). 250 T. 13 December 2011 (KHIEU Samphan), p. 87; T. 25 July 2012 (David CHANDLER), pp. 40-41; T. 9 May 2013 (Philip SHORT), p. 54; T. 9 October 2012 (MEAS Voeun), pp. 40, 44; KHIEU Samphan Interview by Radio Free Asia, E3/581, 6 December 2007, p. 4, ERN (En) 00659103; Book by KHIEU S.: Cambodia’s Recent History and the Reasons Behind the Decisions I Made, E3/18, pp. 2122, 23, 25-26, ERN (En) 00103733-00103734, 00103735-00103736; Article by NUON C.: Past Struggle of Our Kampuchean Peasants From 1954 to 1970, E3/131, pp. 18, 20, ERN (En) 00716426, 00716428. Case 002/01, Judgement, 7 August 2014 - Public 49