01005733 Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313 These messages were a calculated attempt to reduce opposition to the Khmer Rouge advance and lull the Khmer Republic officials into a false sense of security. 344As he was perceived to be a moderate capable of unifying Khmer people from various sides, Khmer Rouge leaders called upon KHIEU Samphan to give deceptive assurances that once the CPK forces took control of the country, only the “seven supertraitors”, including LON Nol and his inner leadership, would be executed.345 The messages invited the Khmer Republic soldiers and civil servants to join the revolution, but warned implicitly that if they delayed in doing so, they would be in the same category as the supertraitors.346 At the same time, cadre were taught at study sessions prior to the attack on Phnom Penh that the enemies of the Khmer Rouge were those who worked under the LON Nol regime and LON Nol soldiers.347 of State Norodom Sihanouk, and on behalf of the RGNUC with Samdech Penn Nouth as prime minister, I make the following appeal to all brother countrymen, including Buddhist monks, laymen, soldiers, civilians in Phnom Penh and the few provincial capitals still under temporary enemy control: 1. All brother officers and troops in the traitorous army are requested to immediately lay down your weapons and join in the NUFC. The NUFC is proud to welcome you and is ready to greet you as brothers and compatriots.”); KHIEU Samphan Congratulates CPNLAF on Neak Luong Victories (in FBIS Collection), E3/118, 3 April 1975, ERN (En) 00166925 (naming the seven members of the LON Nol regime as traitors: LON Nol, SIRIK Matak, SON Ngoc Thanh, CHENG Heng, IN Tam, LONG Boret, SOSTHENE Fernandez); Sihanouk Addresses 22 March NUFC-CPNLAF Reception in Peking (in FBIS Collection), E3/118, 31 March 1975, ERN (En) 00166907 (noting that Khmer Republic soldiers who surrender will be pardoned and granted amnesty by FUNK, GRUNK and the CPK forces, but that the seven supertraitors are to be hanged). 344 T. 11 July 2013 (Stephen HEDER), pp. 68-69; Article by S. HEDER: Pol Pot and Khieu Samphan, E3/3169, 1991, p. 7, ERN (En) 00002752 (“In what appears to have been a calculated abuse of the trust in which he was held, Khieu Samphan actively helped just before the end of the war to set up Lon Nol military personnel and civil servants for easy execution. The esteem in which he was held meant that some of them allowed themselves to become sitting ducks for murder. Thus, as the Communist Party of Kampuchea advanced towards an all-out military victory during the first four months of 1975, Khieu Samphan twice signalled those who had been fighting against it that only the seven top leaders among them would be executed upon defeat.”). 345 KHIEU Samphan Chairs NUFC Congress Session; Communique Issued (in FBIS Collection), E3/117, 26 February 1975, ERN (En) 00166772 (“Concerning the seven traitors in Phnom Penh […] On behalf of the NUFC, RGNUC and CPNLAF, the national congress declares it absolutely necessary to kill these seven traitors for their treason against the nation. […] The Cambodian nation and people, the NUFC and RGNUC will welcome and duly reward those army officers, troops, militiamen, policemen, functionaries, politicians and high dignitaries in the areas under temporary enemy control who dare to oppose the traitors, fight them and turn their weapons on them.”); T. 8 May 2013, p. 35 (Philip SHORT); AKI Reports Sihanouk’s 26 Mar War Criminals Statement (in FBIS Collection), E3/118, 1 April 1975, ERN (En) 00166896 (“Though not sentenced to death […], the other supertraitors such as [list of Khmer Republic officials] are no less true war criminals who, following the liberation of Phnom Penh, will have to answer before state justice for their innumerable evil deeds and terrible crimes […].”). 346 T. 9 May 2013, pp. 3-5 (Philip SHORT). 347 T. 11 January 2013 (CHHAOM Se), pp. 52-55, 60-61. Case 002/01, Judgement, 7 August 2014 - Public 66