BIOGRAPHIC Mey Prang

Mey Prang  (BKI 120, p. 648)

BKI 120, pp. 648-650 / BKI 40, pp. 628-635 / BKI 146, p. 550 / BKI 57 B, p. 1032 / BK, PPR, p. 437

Male (BK, PPR, p. 437)

 

.93 ;notes: railway worker (BK, PPR, p. 437)  

 

head of railways in Phnom Penh (BKI 120, p. 649) ~ leader of railway workers in and around Phnom Penh (BKI 40, p. 628) ~ Minister of Transport, 1976????- (BKI 57 B, p. 1032) ~ minister of communications ;notes: until 1978 (BK, PPR, p. 437)

Phnom Penh (BKI 120, p. 648) ~ Phnom Penh ;notes: Phnom Penh and places south (BKI 40, p. 628)  

work group, 1975????-1977???? (BKI 40, p. 628) ~ political (BK, PPR, p. 437) 

60 old workers from Phnom Penh including Muk Chot and family ;code: 14.1, involuntary labor, 1975???? ;notes: "We were taken back to Phnom Penh, to maintain and repair the railroads from Phnom Penh to the south. We numbered 60 old workers from Phnom Penh. 

Santebal (Special Branch);code: 4.06, arrested, 1978???? ;notes: late 1978 (BK, PPR, p. 437) 

talked of Vietnam, Kampuchea, Laos as being fraternal; not bad to the people, he didn't seem to be very bad to the people, solved living conditions, working conditions, equipment problems... He talked about Vietnam, Kampuchea, Laos being a group of countries in Indochina together. At a political study session, in 1976; or 1977... Mey Prang didn't put up any posters at the meeting; only the DK flag. No pictures of Pol Pot (BKI 120, p. 650) ~ "when Mey Prang spoke about Vietnam, Kampuchea, and Laos, it was to a meeting of about 50 railway workers... He said Vietnam, Kampuchea, and Laos were brothers and sisters (bang p'oun)" (BKI 120, p. 650) ~ "went into the jungle in Lon Nol period" (BKI 40, p. 630) ~ went to Kompong Som with Vorn Vet, Sat Loi, and Sang on the railroad, 1977???? (BKI 40, p. 632) ~ went to Yugoslavia with Chey Suon. "Chey Suon was also a traitor. He went to Yugoslavia, went abroad with Mey Prang", 19?????? (BKI 40, p. 635) ~ Mey Prang was head of a delegation abroad (BKI 40, p. 630) ~ accused of being a traitor and working for the CIA (BKI 57 B, p. 1032) ~ according to Peh Bun Tong, Mey Prang "lived like in the old society. Raped girls, ate, drank, persecuted people. Conflicted with the clean society they wanted to build" (BKI 57 B, p. 1032) ~ spoke at political study meeting of fifty railway workers, saying that Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos were bang p'oun (siblings), 1976 (BK, PPR, p. 437) ~ spoke with restraint concerning Cambodian independence, March 1978 ;notes: he stressed "the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Democratic Kampuchea within the present borders" and did not mention Vietnam or foreign aggression (BK, PPR, p. 437)  

Sat Loi (BKI 40, p. 628) ~ Sang (BKI 40, p. 630) ~ Chey Suon (BKI 40, p. 635) ~ Non Suon (BKI 146, p. 550) ~ Vorn Vet (BKI 146, p. 550)  

 

Vorn Vet (BKI 40, p. 632)  

;entered: P197811?? ;notes: arrested (BKI 40, p. 635)