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612.
[REDACTED] made the reports of the interrogations and sent them to [REDACTED]2654,
who would send both the confessions and the results from the additional interrogation
through the Commander of Unit 806 to Sau Saroeuun at the division level2655 for
instruction.2656
613.
An interrogator named [REDACTED] from Phnom Penh came to work at Au Kanseng in
mid-1977 for about two or three months. 2657 Sau Saroeun personally told [REDACTED]
that [REDACTED] was from the General Staff with Unit 703 under the command of
Pin2658 and came to “[REDACTED] [i.e. [REDACTED]] in order to track down the
activity background of the prisoners who had been implicated in the confessions from
Phnom Penh”2659. Sau Saroeun personally told [REDACTED]that someone would come
from Phnom Penh to work at Au Kanseng.2660 [REDACTED] had a permission letter from
Phnom Penh2661 and arrived with confessions with annotations indicating that the relevant
prisoners must be questioned on their networks and activities.2662 [REDACTED] himself
told [REDACTED] that, prior to coming to Au Kanseng, he worked with Division 122663
and “his unit was an interrogation place or a security place located at a former school of
Tuol Svay Prey”.2664 The Deputy Chairman understood that [REDACTED] came from S21,2665 although Duch states he remembers no such person.2666
614.
According to [REDACTED] it was two or three months after the arrest of a group of
Division 801 cadres and intellectuals that [REDACTED] arrived at Au Kanseng.2667 From
December 1976, there were discussions between Son Sen and Saroeun and other Division
801 cadre about the purging of leading 801 cadre and cadre in the Northeast Zone.2668 In
1977, Division 801 was indeed subjected to severe purges, with some regimental and
battalion cadre, among others being arrested and sent to S-21,2669 whilst lower-ranking
cadre and ordinary combatants were sent to Au Kanseng.
615.
After [REDACTED]’s arrival, many cadres of Lay Sarim’s Unit, were arrested and brought
to Au Kanseng.2670 [REDACTED] participated in the interrogations of four prisoners who
were high rank officers of Division 8012671 including cadres from former Division 11 in
which Lay Sarim2672 (who was sent to S-21 in January 19772673) had been active before
becoming Chairman of Hospital 805 of Division 801. [REDACTED] arranged the
interrogation together with [REDACTED]2674 of a company-level cadre name Pheng Phay,
in the regiment of Lay Sarim2675 and three platoon-level cadre named Port, Sàmrǐn and
Thea.2676. During the interrogations [REDACTED] would refer to the confessions he
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.
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