002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 zone secretaries, and military commanders such as Ke Pork.63 The Congress officially ratified the CPK name that had been adopted five years earlier, and elected a new Central Committee that included Khieu Samphan as an “alternate” or “candidate” member.64 30. In May 1972, the new Central Committee met and issued a directive to Party members to intensify the struggle against the “various oppressive classes” and approved plans for the collectivisation of agriculture.65 Cooperatives were officially imposed by the CPK in the areas they controlled one year later on 20 May 1973.66 31. Later in 1973, the CPK established a new forward base near Chrok Sdech village west of Oudong in Kampong Tralach Leu District, close to the location of Vorn Vet’s Special Zone headquarters and the command post of Son Sen.67 25 CPK battalions took up positions around Oudong, and attacked the former royal capital on 3 March 1974. 68 32. In June 1974, the Central Committee met in Prek Kok Subdistrict, close to the former location of K-1, and “resolved to mount the decisive offensive to liberate Phnom Penh and the entire country”.69 The final assault on Phnom Penh began in January 1975.70 In early March 1975, Pol Pot established a command base in Sdok Taol village in Oudong or Ponhea Leu District, only 20 kilometres from the capital.71 On 1 April 1975, after CPK forces “liberated Neak Loeung,” Lon Nol resigned and went into exile in Hawaii.72 On the morning of 17 April 1975, CPK forces entered Phnom Penh.73 II. ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURES (CENTRE) A. THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF KAMPUCHEA (CPK) 33. As of 17 April 1975, the CPK was governed by a Statute which had been initially adopted at the Party’s first Congress, in September 1960.74 In January 1976, a new Statute75 was adopted at the Party’s Fourth Congress76 that outlined the ideology, membership, structure and organization of the Party. Within the Statute a number of state bodies were particularized: the Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea,77 the national system of Party Committees,78 the Party Central Committee,79 and “various offices and ministries surrounding the Central Committee”.80 Committee. The Party itself was governed by a Central Committee and a Standing 81 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. 16