Hun Sen, Heng Samrin involved in crimes against humanity

Source: Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University

Link: http://cgp.research.yale.edu/cgp//cbio/cbiorecorddetail.jsp?record_id=16605

Credit: S. My

• Headline headline: Y00376: Hun Sen
• Record ID Y00376
• Name Hun Sen (source: DC, BK, p. 158)
• Pre-1979 Activities fled to Vietnam, 197707?? (source: DC, BK, p. 171)
• Pre-1979 Activities In 1966, studied at Wat Tuk La'ak in Phnom Penh; worked with an older cousin, Niv Kien, 38, a teacher and a "doctor" who was a member of the party [WPK?]; with other students at the wat, Hun Sen "sold bread with letters inside." Niv Kien, who was "active in Prey Nup and elsewhere," was arrested in 1967 and disappeared. Hun Sen fled to Kratie and became a water seller; in 1969 he made contact with Mey Pho [in Memot?] and became a messenger for him. In 1969 he claims to have "organized a youth movement" against land seizures in Memot. "Then truckloads of police came" and Hun Sen fled back to Kratie (source: BKI 21.10.80, pp. 17-18)
• Pre-1979 Activities "joined the movement on 14 April 1970" as platoon commander of 30 troops in an area commanded by Nat (source: BKI 23.9..91)
• Pre-1979 Activities after the U.S. April 1970 invasion, only 16 troops remained (source: BKI 23.9.91)
• Pre-1979 Activities in 1971, became a platoon commander again (source: BKI 23.9.91)
• Pre-1979 Activities studied special commando tactics for 10 months in a training school in Damber run by Khmer and Vietnamese instructors for 78 students, including 6 university students; followed by 2 months' practical training (source: BKI 23.9.91)
• Pre-1979 Activities alleged to have participated in Khmer Rouge attack on Kampong Cham city, Northern Zone, 1973 (source: Saren Thach, in Washington Post, 30.10.89, and in International Herald Tribune, 2.11.89 (see also 6.11.89, response by Elizabeth Becker))
• Pre-1979 Activities participated in battle for Phnom Penh, April 1975, and was wounded on April 16, losing an eye and recuperating in hospital until November 1975 (source: BK, PPR, p. 266)
• Alleged Persecutor of: hospital patients, Kampong Cham city, Region 41, Northern Zone, 197309??, 1.56, killed, "when overrunning two hospitals, Heng Samrin's and Hun Sen's troops threw hand grenades and later slit the throats of critically ill patients" (source: Saren Thach, Washington Post, 30.10.89, citing Washington Post, 10.9.73, which reports such incidents without specifying the units involved, their Zone of origin, or the names of their commanders: "several soldiers and residents told the photographer that some of the rebels threw hand grenades and plastic explosives into still-occupied homes and cut the throats of the critically wounded at the city hospital." See also Elizabeth Becker's response to Saren Thach, International Herald Tribune, 6.11.89)
• Associates Chum Horl (source: BKI 23.9.91)
• Associates Kim Teng, nephew of So Phim (military trainer) (source: DC, BK, p. 158)
• Associates Chum Sei, deputy political comissar (source: DC, BK, p. 171)
• Date of Birth 1952???? (source: BK, PPR, p. 370)
• Date of Birth 1951???? (source: BKI 21.10.80, p. 11)
• DK Organisation Type 1975-1979 CPK military (source: DC, BK, p. 158)
• DK Organisation Type 1975-1979 military (source: BK, PPR, p. 266)
• DK Organisation Type 1975-1979 military (source: BKI 21.10.80, p. 17)
• DK Zone, 1975-1979 Zone Name or Compass Point: E, Region No.: 21 (source: DC, BK, p. 158)
• DK Zone, 1975-1979 Zone Name or Compass Point: E, Region No.: 21 (source: BK, PPR, p. 266)
• DK Zone, 1975-1979 Zone Name or Compass Point: E, Region No.: 21, Province Name: Memot (source: BKI 21.10.80, p. 17)
• Gender Male (source: BK, PPR, p. 370)
• Non- or Pre-DK Education high school (source: DC, BK, p. 158)
• Non- or Pre-DK Education Wat Tuk La'ak, Phnom Penh (source: BKI 21.10.80, p. 17)
• Non- or Pre-DK Occupation student (source: BKI 21.10.80, p. 17)
• Non- or Pre-DK Occupation water-seller (source: BKI 21.10.80, p. 17)
• Non- or Pre-DK Occupation messenger (source: BKI 21.10.80, p. 17)
• Organisational Unit, 1975-1979 Special Regiment, Region 21, Eastern Zone (Memot border) (source: BK-GD 15)
• Organisational Unit, 1975-1979 Special Regiment, Region 21, to 197707?? (source: BK, PPR, p. 370)
• Organisational Unit, 1975-1979 55th Company, Special Forces Regiment, Region 21, 1975???? (source: BK, PPR, p. 266)
• Organisational Unit, 1975-1979 Regiment, Region 21 (source: DC, BK, p. 158)
• Political Party/Organisation CPK, joined in "early 1971" (source: BKI 21.10.80, p. 18)
• Rank or Position 1975-1979 Deputy Commander, Special Regiment, Region 21, 1977???? (source: BK, PPR, p. 370)
• Rank or Position 1975-1979 Officer, 55th Company, Special Forces Regiment, Region 21, 1975???? (source: BK, PPR, p. 266)
• Rank or Position 1975-1979 Regimental Commander, responsible for border between Region 21 and Vietnam, 197703?? (source: DC, BK, p. 171)
• Rank or Position 1975-1979 chief of staff, Special Regiment (Memot border), Region 21, Eastern Zone, from September 1975 (source: BKI 23.9.91)
• Rank or Position 1975-1979 a regimental "commander" (Khmer term unavailable), 1975-1977 (source: BKI 21.10.80)
• Rank or Position 1975-1979 Regimental Chief of Staff (source: BK, PPR, p. 266)
• Rank or Position 1975-1979 chief of staff and deputy commander, Special Regiment (Memot border), Region 21, Eastern Zone, from early 1977 (source: BKI 23.9.91)
• Rank or Position pre-1975 platoon commander, Memot (1970-1971) (source: BKI 21.10.80, p. 17)
• Rank or Position pre-1975 company political chief, 1971-1973 (source: BKI 21.10.80, p. 17)
• Rank or Position pre-1975 55th Battalion political chief (protean niyobay), 1974-1975 (source: BKI 21.10.80, p. 17)
• Resistance ordered to attack Vietnamese territory at Or Lu in Loc Ninh Province; says that he, Sok Sat, and Chum Sei refused to do so, 197703?? (source: DC, BK, p. 171)
• Resistance refused to attack the Vietnamese village of Or Lu after his superiors were purged, 197704?? (source: BK, PPR, p. 370)
• Resistance defected and fled to Vietnamese border, July 1977 (source: BK, PPR, p. 371)
• Resistance attempted contact with So Phim, driving in Vietnamese tank to Kandol Chrum Township, Eastern Zone, 19771222 (source: DC, BK, p. 172)
• Resistance ordered to report for duty to engage in repression of the Cham revolt in September 1975, but says he declined to do so (source: BK, PPR, p. 266)
• Sources Ben Kiernan Interviews (no. + transcript translation page no.) (BKI) 23.9.91
• Sources Washington Post, 30.10.89
• Sources International Herald Tribune, 2.11.89 and 6.11.89
• Sources WSJ 31.3.92
• Sources Revolution and its aftermath in Kampuchea : eight essays / edited by David P. Chandler and Ben Kiernan. New Haven : Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 1983. (DC, BK), pp. 158-198
• Sources The Pol Pot Regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 / Ben Kiernan. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1996. (BK, PPR), pp. 266, 370-1, 455
• Sources Ben Kiernan Interviews (no. + transcript translation page no.) (BKI) 21.10.80, pp. 11-19
• Superiors Kun Deth, chief of staff, Region 21 armed forces (source: BKI 23.9.91)
• Superiors Sok Sat, political commissar, Special Regiment (Memot border), Region 21 (source: BKI 23.9.91)
• Superiors Chum Horl, commander, Special Regiment (Memot border), Region 21 (source: BKI 23.9.91)
• Superiors Chum Sei, deputy political commissar (source: BKI 23.9.91)