002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 649. Wat Tlork originally functioned under the command of cadre of East Zone origin. The precise composition of its committee changed over time and the timing of these changes is not always clear.2825 However, one cadre who has been clearly identified as having chaired Wat Tlork is Vung Ao.2826 Ao appears to have continued as chairman when the security office was relocated to Boeung Rai, where other district level authorities also seem to have been located.2827 One detainee from Wat Tlork clearly remembers that Ao only transferred to Boeung Rai in early 1978, along with all the personnel and the 30 remaining prisoners, when Wat Tlork was closed definitively.2828 650. A number of witnesses,2829 corroborated in some cases by S-21 arrest and detention lists,2830 confirm that, in May 1978, Meanchey Thmei cadre (including District Security Office Chairman Vung Ao, and Tlork Subdistrict leading cadre Sok Saret), were arrested by Centre cadre under the command of Son Sen,2831 and that some, at least, were sent to S-21 (Tuol Sleng), perhaps via Tlork Pagoda. Thereafter, one witness states that the District, including Wat Tlork and Boeung Rai, passed under the control of the Centre forces.2832 651. Witnesses confirm that approximately 20 to 30 subordinate security personnel worked at the Wat Tlork office and detention centre, residing either in the office in the village or at the pagoda,2833 although the number may have fallen to less than 10 in 1978.2834 652. There is no evidence that any of the Charged Persons personally visited Wat Tlork.2835 Arrest and Detention 653. One witness interviewed was detained at Wat Tlork (along with his family), commencing in late 1977.2836 Witness statements affirm that the Wat Tlork prison population was essentially composed of civilian Cambodians, mostly Khmer (as opposed to foreigners or ethnic minorities),2837 arrested for reasons including stealing food and immoral behaviour.2838 People evacuated from Phnom Penh in 1975 and former Khmer Republic civil and military personnel appear to have been detained in subdistrict prison facilities such as Wat Boeng Rai, rather than Wat Tlork itself.2839 Nevertheless, the witness who was detained understood that his family had been arrested in late 1977, “because my father was an Officer in the LON Nol army, or my mother was the Chinese descendant, or we were classified as the new-people”, and noted that other people were detained from around the district after the Vietnamese incursion in 1977.2840 Witnesses state that prisoners were sent to Wat Tlork from other security centres in the district,2841 or were brought directly to Wat Tlork from surrounding villages and subdistricts of Meanchey Thmei District.2842 Although Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, National Road 4, Choam Chao, Dangkao Phnom Penh Mailing address: P.O. Box 71, Phnom Penh; Tel: +855(0)23 218914 Fax: +855(0) 23 218941. 164