002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 people who settled in Tram Kok were occasionally moved en masse from area to area within the District.1240 305. The precise organization of the population in each cooperative depended on its leadership.1241 However, in accordance with CPK policy nationwide, members were officially divided into three categories: full-rights, candidate and depositee members. These categories determined the degree of their involvement in the functioning of the cooperatives.1242 The depositee category seems to have been broadly synonymous with the people moved from Phnom Penh and other locations which were under Khmer Republic administration up until 17 April 1975. This group was widely known as “new people”1243 or “17 April people”.1244 “New people” lacked political rights and could not be unit chiefs within the cooperatives.1245 Cooperative members known as “base people”1246 could hold either full-rights or candidate status. The candidate category was for those with alleged family or other connections or links to the enemy.1247 In mid-1978, this three-fold categorization was proclaimed abolished.1248 However, this abolition may have been mere pretence.1249 306. Several witnesses recall that in their cooperatives full-rights, candidate and depositee people were separated into different labour units designated one, two and three, respectively.1250 In which unit people were placed depended on what facts they revealed about themselves in their biographies.1251 The depositee unit was controlled by members of the full-rights and candidate units pursuant to the original policy that “new people” were not permitted to be unit chiefs.1252 In the Nheng Nhang Subdistrict, these three groups lived and worked apart until 1978, at which time they were integrated.1253 This may have been in accordance with the CPK’s nationwide abolition of the three categories.1254 Each unit had several sub-units such as a carpenter unit, canal digging unit and cart unit.1255 The head of each unit was a chairman who reported to the secretary of the subdistrict committee. In turn, the subdistrict committee reported to and received its orders from the district committee.1256 Usually, messengers carried communications between the different levels, including invitations to meetings.1257 307. Every two weeks subdistrict committees met to discuss the “work plan”. These meetings were led by District Committee cadre.1258 Following these meetings, the subdistrict chief would verbally disseminate the work plan to the cooperative members and urged them to strive towards three to four tons of rice, per hectare, per year.1259 One former cooperative member recalls attending small unit meetings three times a month. At these meetings members criticised each other and admitted what they had done wrong.1260 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. 80