002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 203. Further facts relating to the East Zone purges are set out the section of the Closing Order regarding S-21, Kampong Chhnang airport, Steung Tauch execution site and the movement of people from the East Zone (Phase 3). *** 204. One hundred and sixteen (116) civil parties were declared admissible in the context of the “purges” conducted by the Democratic Kampuchea regime in the (Old and/or New) North Zone in 1976 and (New) North Zone in late 1976 and early 1977 and in the East Zone in 1978697, since the alleged crimes described in the application were considered as being more likely than not to be true, pursuant to Internal Rule 23 bis (4). These civil parties have provided sufficient elements tending to establish prima facie personal harm as a direct consequence of the crimes of “purges” conducted by the Democratic Kampuchea regime in the (Old and/or New) North Zone in 1976 and (New) North Zone in late 1976 and early 1977 and in the East Zone in 1978. D. TREATMENT OF TARGETED GROUPS 205. One of the five policies was to implement and defend the CPK socialist revolution through the targeting of specific groups by whatever means necessary. This measure adversely affected many groups of people within Cambodia at that time, directly or indirectly. The CoInvestigating Judges have been specifically seized of acts of the CPK targeting the Cham, Vietnamese and Buddhist groups, and the targeting of former officials of the Khmer Republic (including both civil servants and former military personnel and their families), occurring throughout Cambodia from the early stages of CPK control over certain parts of the territory before 1975 and continuing until at least 6 January 1979. 206. The Co-Investigating Judges are seized of treatment of the Cham in the Central, East and Northwest Zones; of the Vietnamese in Prey Veng and Svay Rieng Provinces in the East Zone and during incursions into Vietnam; of Buddhists throughout Democratic Kampuchea; and of former officials of the Khmer Republic during the movement of the population from Phnom Penh. This last incident constitutes only one of several occurrences of a pattern of targeting former officials of the Khmer Republic.698 207. An objective of this policy was to establish an atheistic and homogenous society without class divisions, abolishing all ethnic, national, religious, racial, class and cultural differences. This is evidenced through Party documents relating to class. In 1974, an article written by Pol Pot 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. 55