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sets.809 Ordinary people in Cambodia did not generally have free access to
information through the radio in the DK period.810
259. Public radio broadcasts emanating from Cambodia (and other countries in the
region) were monitored, recorded and translated by United States government
personnel in Thailand. Reports of the broadcasts were transmitted to U.S. embassies
around the world by teletype as part of the ‘Foreign Broadcast Information Service’
(‘FBIS’).811 Forty-nine compilations of FBIS reports were put before the Chamber in
the course of the trial.812
260. Summaries and transcriptions of DK radio broadcasts were also compiled,
translated into English and published by the British Broadcasting Corporation
(‘BBC’) as part of its ‘Summary of World Broadcasts’ (‘SWB’) service. 813 Forty-five
collections of SWB reports were put before the Chamber in the course of the trial.814
6.1.5. Magazines
261. Beginning in the period before 1975, the CPK published Party magazines
entitled Revolutionary Flag and Revolutionary Youth approximately on a monthly
809
T. 20 September 2012 (CHEA Say), p. 39. See also, T. 7 December 2012 (HUN Chhunly), pp.
114-115 (recalling an occasion on which he and his colleagues were convened to listen to a radio news
broadcast).
810
T. 7 December 2012 (HUN Chhunly), pp. 28-29 (stating that listening to a personal radio was a
“risk”).
811
T. 11 July 2013 (Stephen HEDER), p. 70. See also, T. 19 July 2012 (David CHANDLER), p. 132.
812
FBIS Collections, E3/30, E3/75, E3/76, E3/77, E3/118, E3/119, E3/120, E3/143, E3/147, E3/271,
E3/272, E3/273, E3/274, E3/275, E3/276, E3/277, E3/278, E3/279, E3/280, E3/281, E3/282, E3/283,
E3/284, E3/285, E3/286, E3/287, E3/288, E3/289, E3/290, E3/291, E3/292, E3/293, E3/294, E3/295,
E3/296, E3/488, E3/1339, E3/1355, E3/1356, E3/1357, E3/1358, E3/1359, E3/1360, E3/1361, E3/1362,
E3/1363, E3/1364, E3/1365, E3/1366, January 1975 – January 1979. The Chamber has only relied on
those parts of the FBIS Collections that are relevant and that have been translated into all of the
ECCC’s working languages. However, on an exceptional basis and in order to ensure a complete
presentation of evidence, the Chamber has had regard to FBIS reports available only in English where
they corroborate other pieces of evidence.
813
Book by B. KIERNAN: The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the
Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979, E3/1593, p. xi, ERN (En) 00678493 (indicating that the SWB reports were
compiled by the BBC). See also, Statement Submitted by Amnesty International (ECOSOC), E3/4198,
August 1978, p. 2, ERN (En) 00271505.
814
SWB Collections, E3/133, E3/298, E3/299, E3/301, E3/686, E3/1241, E3/1280, E3/1349, E3/1350,
E3/1372, E3/1376, E3/1378, E3/1379, E3/1380, E3/1381, E3/1400, E3/1402, E3/1403, E3/1404,
E3/1405, E3/1406, E3/1407, E3/1408, E3/1410, E3/1412, E3/1413, E3/1414, E3/1415, E3/1418,
E3/1423, E3/1486, E3/1487, E3/1590, E3/1751, E3/2306, E3/2674, E3/2726, E3/2728, E3/2730,
E3/3165, E3/3742, E3/3743, E3/3749, E3/5710.
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