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required.617 It comprised seven members, all of whom were drawn from the Central
Committee.618 As with the Central Committee, membership of the Standing
Committee was reshuffled from time to time.619 POL Pot, IENG Sary, SAO Phim and
NUON Chea were members of the Standing Committee from its inception.620 Ta Mok
joined in 1963.621 SON Sen alias Khieu was a candidate or alternate (as opposed to
full-rights) member of the Standing Committee,622 and SOK Thuok alias VORN Vet
was either a full-rights or a candidate member.623 SUA Vasi alias Doeun and KHIEU
Samphan were never formally members of the Standing Committee, but they both
attended a number of its meetings.624 Standing Committee meetings could be (and
often were) convened in the absence of one or more Committee members.625
617
KHIEU Samphan Interview Record, E3/27, 13 December 2007, p. 10, ERN (En) 00156750. See
also, Standing Committee Minutes, E3/221, 14 May 1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/222, 15
May 1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/223, 17 May 1976 (indicating that meetings were
sometimes held in close succession).
618
T. 24 July 2012 (David CHANDLER), p. 120; KHIEU Samphan Interview Record, E3/27, 13
December 2007, p. 11, ERN (En) 00156751; T. 27 March 2012 (KAING Guek Eav), p. 73; Report by
S. HEDER and M. MATSUSHITA: Interviews with Kampuchean Refugees at Thai-Cambodia Border,
E3/1714, February-March 1980, p. 58, ERN (En) 00170749.
619
T. 30 January 2012 (NUON Chea), p. 39.
620
T. 5 December 2011 (NUON Chea), pp. 74-75; T. 10 January 2012 (NUON Chea), pp. 22, 24;
KHIEU Samphan Interview Record, E3/27, 13 December 2007, p. 11, ERN (En) 00156751; T. 18 July
2012 (David CHANDLER), p. 32.
621
T. 10 January 2012 (NUON Chea), p. 24.
622
T. 6 May 2013 (Philip SHORT), p. 68; T. 27 March 2012 (KAING Guek Eav), p. 72; Report by S.
HEDER and M. MATSUSHITA: Interviews with Kampuchean Refugees at Thai-Cambodia Border,
E3/1714, February-March 1980, p. 58, ERN (En) 00170749.
623
KHIEU Samphan Interview Record, E3/27, 13 December 2007, p. 11, ERN (En) 00156751; T. 27
March 2012 (KAING Guek Eav), p. 72; Report by S. HEDER and M. MATSUSHITA: Interviews with
Kampuchean Refugees at Thai-Cambodia Border, E3/1714, February-March 1980, p. 58, ERN (En)
00170749. See also, Book by D. CHANDLER: Voices From S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot’s
Secret Prison, E3/1684, p. 21, ERN (En) 00192700 (giving VORN Vet’s real name as SOK Thuok).
624
Of the 23 sets of minutes of Standing Committee meetings put before the Chamber, 19 contain
lists of those attending the meetings, 16 record KHIEU Samphan alias Hem as being present, and 12
record SUA Vasi alias Doeun as being present: see Standing Committee Minutes, E3/182, 9 October
1975; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/197, 11-13 March 1976; Standing Committee Report, E3/216,
20-24 August 1975; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/217, 11 March 1976; Standing Committee
Minutes, E3/218, 26 March 1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/219, 3 May 1976; Standing
Committee Minutes, E3/220, 7 May 1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/221, 14 May 1976;
Standing Committee Minutes, E3/222, 15 May 1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/223, 17 May
1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/224, 30 May 1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/225, 1
June 1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/226, 10 June 1976; Standing Committee Minutes,
E3/227, 2 November 1975; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/228, 9 January 1976; Standing
Committee Minutes, E3/229, 22 February 1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/230, 22 February
1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/231, 8 March 1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/232, 8
March 1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/233, 13 March 1976; Standing Committee Minutes,
E3/235, 21 April 1976; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/237, 10 March 1976; and Standing
Committee Minutes, E3/238, 28 February 1976. See also, Section 8: Roles and Functions – Khieu
Samphan, para. 351, fn. 1052 confirming that KHIEU Samphan went by the alias ‘Hem’. See also, T.
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