002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 of Kampuchea (“RAK”).47 In the following months, guerrilla attacks continued by CPK forces throughout the country.48 25. On 18 March 1970, Prince Norodom Sihanouk was overthrown by General Lon Nol and Prince Sirik Matak, who established a regime which was later called the “Khmer Republic”.49 On 23 March 1970, Sihanouk announced the formation of the National United Front of Kampuchea (“FUNK”), and called on his countrymen to rise up against the new government.50 Prince Sihanouk and the CPK formed an alliance as well as a government-inexile based in Beijing called the Royal Government of National Union of Kampuchea (“GRUNK”). It was officially announced on 5 May 1970.51 Norodom Sihanouk was President of the FUNK, the Prime Minister of the GRUNK was the non-communist Penn Nouth,52 and Khieu Samphan was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. Ieng Thirith was appointed Vice-Minister for Culture, Education and Youth in the GRUNK by August 1970.53 26. Around this time, the CPK leaders left Ratanakiri. A several month trip began, south of the Steung Chinit River on the border of Kampong Cham and Kampong Thom provinces, the location of the headquarters of North Zone Secretary Koy Thuon.54 Pol Pot and Nuon Chea first stayed at a base code-named K-1, located in Dangkda village northeast of Speu Subdistrict.55 At the end of 1970, they moved to a larger base close by on the northern side of the Chinit River code-named S-71.56 The Party leaders based at this site included Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, and Chhim Sam Aok alias Pang.57 27. Ieng Sary went to Hanoi in December 1970 to organise the radio (the “Voice of the FUNK”), which was placed under the authority and control of Ieng Thirith58 until May 1975. Thereafter, in April 1971, he travelled to Beijing to stay with Sihanouk and to serve as the “special emissary of the resistance movement”.59 At his villa in Beijing, Ieng Sary had a direct telegraph link to S-71.60 28. In early 1971, the CPK Central Committee met for the first time since October 1966 for a three-day meeting at S-71. 27 of its members attended the meeting, including Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Sao Phim, Vorn Vet, Ta Mok, Ruos Nheum, Kung Sophal, Chou Chet, Kang Chap, Koy Thuon, Ke Pork, Seua Vasi alias Doeun and Pang.61 29. Following a training session conducted by Pol Pot at the North Zone headquarters in 1971 that was attended by 200 zone, sector and district cadres, selected participants were taken 15 miles away to a camp in the jungle, where the Third Party Congress was held.62 This Congress was attended by approximately 60 delegates, including Khieu Samphan, all of the 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. 15