01005781 Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313 5.1.3. Military Committee 204. The Military Committee was another extra-statutory sub-committee of the Central Committee. The Military Committee was chaired by POL Pot and was responsible for military and security affairs.626 SON Sen was also a member of the Military Committee.627 Although the Closing Order alleges that NUON Chea was a member of the Military Committee, the Chamber is not satisfied on the available evidence that this has been demonstrated.628 5.1.4. Party Centre 205. Several of the witnesses and experts who testified before the Chamber used the phrase ‘Party Centre’ to refer to the senior leadership tier of the CPK. However, as Witness Stephen HEDER pointed out, ‘Party Centre’ was a nebulous term: sometimes it was used in a collective sense to describe an entire “level within the Party hierarchy”, and sometimes it was used to designate a specific entity or body within the upper echelon of the CPK (such as the Central Committee, the Standing Committee or one of its connected offices, or even POL Pot himself).629 The phrase ‘Party Centre’ also appeared in a number of documents put before the Chamber, including both DK-era documents and subsequent academic commentaries, generally 27 March 2012 (KAING Guek Eav), p. 73; T. 8 May 2013 (Philip SHORT), p. 2; 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. 625 KHIEU Samphan Interview Record, E3/27, 13 December 2007, p. 11, ERN (En) 00156751. See also, Section 5: Administrative Structures, fn. 624. 626 T. 11 January 2012 (NUON Chea), p. 34; IENG Sary Interview by Stephen HEDER, E3/89, 17 December 1996, p. 8, ERN (En) 00417606; Article by T. CARNEY: The Organization of Power, in Cambodia 1975-1978: Rendezvous With Death, E3/49, p. 88, ERN (En) 00105137. 627 IENG Sary Interview by ABC Television, E3/93, 28 August 1996, p. 6, ERN (En) 00078610; IENG Sary Interview by Elizabeth BECKER, E3/94, 22 July 1981, p. 3, ERN (En) 00342502; KAING Guek Eav Interview Record, E3/83, 20 October 2009, p. 6, ERN (En) 00398166; NUON Chea Initial Appearance Record, E3/54, 19 September 2007, p. 4, ERN (En) 00148817. 628 See Section 7: Roles and Functions – Nuon Chea, para. 333. 629 T. 11 July 2013 (Stephen HEDER), p. 15. See e.g. T. 20 June 2012 (YUN Kim), p. 6 (referring to the Party Centre as the “supreme leadership level of the CPK”); T. 21 August 2012 (SA Siek), p. 23 (defining the Party Centre as the level above the Zones and Sectors). See also, T. 18 July 2012 (David CHANDLER), p. 112 (suggesting that “Party Centre […] referred particularly to the […] Central Committee”); T. 7 August 2012 (SUONG Sikoeun), p. 12 (describing “Office 870” as the “Party Centre Office”); NORNG Sophang Interview Record, E3/64, 18 February 2009, p. 6, ERN (En) 00334047 (equating the Party Centre with “Committee 870”); KE Pich Vannak Interview Record, E3/35, 4 June 2009, p. 16, ERN (En) 00346160 (mentioning a “Party Centre Standing [committee]”); SONG Meng Interview Record, E3/5142, 12 December 2007, p. 4, ERN (En) 00223616 (suggesting that POL Pot was the Party Centre); SAR Sarin DC-Cam Interview, E3/4596, 5 May 2009, p. 9, ERN (En) 00739501 (referring to the Centre as the “upper echelons”). Case 002/01, Judgement, 7 August 2014 - Public 114