Document showing Hor Namhong as the chief of Boeung Trabek Re-Education Camp
Below is the confession of Van Piny, the director of Boeung Trabek Re-Education Camp implicating Hor Namhong as one of the chiefs of Boeung trabek Centre.
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We all comdamne KR regime and all the most known leaders of that period. You know that at that time, children were told to denounce theirs parents; a wife was asked to report any thing done by the husband, if judged "un-revolutionary"... It was crual society! There were groups of three, of ten, etc.(Puok, Krom, Kong, etc.) Each member of the group had to report the behavior of the others, and at the end the president of the comitee of the place had to report to "Angkar"!, or the Khmer Rouge officers responsibles of the places (B32 for example). You should be reported simply if you were telling to someone that you want to eat something good, or you were telling the persons that you used to live in foreign countries or you talked about your trips abroad. For just something like that, you can be killed, because they judged that you want to brink back the old society, or to live the way of life of the the "imperialists", etc. Anyone can report anything. There should be only something personnal dsiputes between individuals, or just hearsays... Unless you didn't live in those reeducation centers, or "prisons" if you will, you cannot be safe. All the cooperatives, any community or 'center' was organized the same way, had the same structure. Every one belonged to some kind of committees. The cooperative chiefs, or presidents, any executives members who didn't report anything, would found themselves treated as the "ennemies" of the "Angkar", and they were later killed. And we should remember that no one can refuse any duty given to him. So we can understand why there were millions of death at that time. Only if you were outside the country at that time, you can say that you are clean... The regine was evil, the first thing that we should see and comdemne! Otherwise we should bring to KR Court several thousands of those survivors... yes survivors that you want to comdamne!
I am some what surprise but not so surprise because during the KR people confessed to anything because they were beating to believe that you are CIA and asked to name all the people your know. They took those as confession then carried their killings spree. To judge someone guilty based on this confession is little shacky. I am not ruling out his guilty. This is why it is hard to jump into conclusion that he is guilty. In the list, I saw the name Chem Sngoun as a member too. What role did he played? Why he blamed Hor Namhong for his son death or tried to have him kill. From this confession it almost confirmed that he worked there under that capcity as described but he was not the leader perse. Did he has larger role in executing prisoner? We dont know the truth. What about other missing pages?
You are right warrior Blood, but with many evidences and eyewitnesses saying the same thing, do you thing that Hor 5 Hong has nothing to do with Boeung Trabek camp? Eyewitnesses and survivors of Boeung trabek said it, U.S cables said it and now the confessions said it. That should be enough evidence to implicate Hor 5 Hong in the KR crimes.
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We all comdamne KR regime and all the most known leaders of that period. You know that at that time, children were told to denounce theirs parents; a wife was asked to report any thing done by the husband, if judged "un-revolutionary"... It was crual society! There were groups of three, of ten, etc.(Puok, Krom, Kong, etc.) Each member of the group had to report the behavior of the others, and at the end the president of the comitee of the place had to report to "Angkar"!, or the Khmer Rouge officers responsibles of the places (B32 for example). You should be reported simply if you were telling to someone that you want to eat something good, or you were telling the persons that you used to live in foreign countries or you talked about your trips abroad. For just something like that, you can be killed, because they judged that you want to brink back the old society, or to live the way of life of the the "imperialists", etc. Anyone can report anything. There should be only something personnal dsiputes between individuals, or just hearsays... Unless you didn't live in those reeducation centers, or "prisons" if you will, you cannot be safe. All the cooperatives, any community or 'center' was organized the same way, had the same structure. Every one belonged to some kind of committees. The cooperative chiefs, or presidents, any executives members who didn't report anything, would found themselves treated as the "ennemies" of the "Angkar", and they were later killed. And we should remember that no one can refuse any duty given to him. So we can understand why there were millions of death at that time. Only if you were outside the country at that time, you can say that you are clean... The regine was evil, the first thing that we should see and comdemne! Otherwise we should bring to KR Court several thousands of those survivors... yes survivors that you want to comdamne!
I am some what surprise but not so surprise because during the KR people confessed to anything because they were beating to believe that you are CIA and asked to name all the people your know. They took those as confession then carried their killings spree. To judge someone guilty based on this confession is little shacky. I am not ruling out his guilty. This is why it is hard to jump into conclusion that he is guilty. In the list, I saw the name Chem Sngoun as a member too. What role did he played? Why he blamed Hor Namhong for his son death or tried to have him kill. From this confession it almost confirmed that he worked there under that capcity as described but he was not the leader perse. Did he has larger role in executing prisoner? We dont know the truth. What about other missing pages?
Yo! Warrior Blood, the other pages are coming when Chang Yuk get all the payment.
You are right warrior Blood, but with many evidences and eyewitnesses saying the same thing, do you thing that Hor 5 Hong has nothing to do with Boeung Trabek camp? Eyewitnesses and survivors of Boeung trabek said it, U.S cables said it and now the confessions said it. That should be enough evidence to implicate Hor 5 Hong in the KR crimes.
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