002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 report.2151 For example, a report from Trapeang Thom Tboung commune addressed to the Kraing Ta Chan Chairman sets out the offences of three people who the Party had decided to arrest and send to Kraing Ta Chan.2152 At the same time, a report would be sent to the sector committee. These reports were the basis for detainee interrogation.2153 Later, the chairman of Kraing Ta Chan would send the prisoners’ confessions to the district secretary who would forward them to the sector committee.2154 The sector secretary would then advise the district committee of which individuals were to be killed and those who were to be released. The names of these individuals would be sent to Kraing Ta Chan for implementation.2155 Therefore, it appears that the sector decided upon the fate of those held at Kraing Ta Chan based almost exclusively on confessions and other information produced by the district office. The district, for its part, relied on information provided to it by the subdistrict, including allegations made by subdistrict militia and denunciations coming from members of the population. 498. A Tram Kok District resident recalls that before evacuees from Phnom Penh arrived in the area, the secretaries of the districts and subdistricts attended a meeting at which they were advised that there would be a purge of the evacuees. Anyone who had been a soldier holding the rank of Corporal Sergeant or above in the Khmer Republic regime, and anyone from the Khmer Republic administration who had been a first deputy chief or higher, would be purged. This is confirmed by three witnesses, including the former district youth chairman who recalls that when new people arrived at Tram Kok they were made to write biographies. He also states that anyone who admitted to being a soldier would subsequently disappear.2156 One witness recalls arriving in Tram Kok in April 1975 and being ordered to write his biography. He was told specifically to speak the truth about whether he was a soldier or government official.2157 A committee member of a sub-distrct in Tram Kok recalls the commune secretary being ordered to gather together all the evacuees who held the rank of Second Lieutenant or higher. Once assembled, the upper echelon would send a truck to take them away. These people disappeared forever.2158 The Kraing Ta Chan prisoner lists and the increase in the number of prisoners at Kraing Ta Chan after April 1975 suggests many of those who disappeared were sent to Kraing Ta Chan.2159 Several reports from the subdistrict to the district in 1977 reveal that the purge of former Khmer Republic soldiers and officials continued after 1975.2160 499. Many of those who were sent to Kraing Ta Chan were arrested by subdistrict militia.2161 A former guard recalls that the subdistrict militia would bring people to Kraing Ta Chan day and night, sometimes as many as ten tied together.2162 Another guard states that when prisoners arrived, he saw them tied together with their hands and biceps restrained.2163 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. 129