Heng Samrin

Y00164

Heng

Samrin

BKI 202, pp. 3212-3248 / BKI 205, p. 3283 / BKI 203, pp. 3300-3331 / BKI 128 B, p. 179 / BK

Male

Anlong Chrey Village, Kak Subdistrict, Ponhea Krek District, Kampong Cham Province (BKI 202, p. 3212)

Song Hem ; (BKI 202, p. 3212)

Heng Seng ; (BKI 202, p. 3212)

SW, 25 (BKI 202, p. 3229) ~ E, 21, Ponhea Krek, Krek (BKI 203, p. 3301)

military (BKI 202, p. 3212) ~ military (BKI 203, p. 3301)

12th Battalion, 1971????-1972???? (BKI 202, p. 3217) ~ 126th Regiment, Region 25, Eastern Zone (BKI 202, p. 3218) ~ 4th Division, 1975???? (BKI 202, p. 3236) ~ 4th Eastern Zone Division, including 65th, 67th, 68th Regiments, and support regiment (5_?th), Krek Subdistrict, Ponhea Krek District, Region 21, Eastern Zone (BKI 203, p. 3301-3302)

cell leader, 196????? ;notes: pre-1961 (BKI 202, p. 3213) ~ technician, courier, guide (BKI 202, p. 3245) ~ deputy chief(?)of a technical liaison group between Centre and base (BKI 202, p. 3213) ~ party secretary of a platoon, Region 20 (a.k.a. 'Section 6'), 1968????-1969???? (BKI 202, p. 3217) ~ company commander (BKI 202, p. 3217) ~ 12th Battalion commander, 1971????-1972???? (BKI 202, p. 3217) ~ Deputy President, Front Committee, Region 25, Eastern Zone (BKI 202, p. 3218) ~ chief of 126th Regiment, Eastern Zone, Region 25, 1973???? (BKI 202, p. 3218) ~ claims to have been the commander of a military unit in the Sihanouk regime, 196????? ;notes: up to 1968 (BKI 202, p. 3215) ~ 1st Division commander, 1975???? ;notes: up to April 17, 1975 (BKI 203, p. 3300)

deputy chief of staff of Eastern Zone forces, 1976????-1978???? (BKI 202, pp. 3236, 3248) ~ 4th Division chief, Eastern Zone, 1975????-1978???? (BKI 202, p. 3236, 3248) ~ Eastern Zone committee member, 1975????-1978???? (BKI 202, p. 3236) ~ a commander of 1st Division, Eastern Zone, 1975???? (BKI 202, p. 3219) ~ Eastern Zone deputy chief, general staff (anouprotean senatikar youthephumipeak), 1976???? (BKI 203, p. 3300) ~ So Phim (BK)

So Phim, Eastern Zone CPK Secretary (BK)

Kim, 4th Division deputy chief (BKI 202, p. 3248) ~ Kry, 4th Division deputy chief (BKI 202, p. 3248)

joined KPRP after 3-month candidacy in 1961 (BKI 202, p. 3214) ~ family participated in the Issarak movement against French imperialism (BKI 202, p. 3212) ~ "joined the revolution, working for it from 1959" (BKI 202, p. 3213) ~ active between the Centre and the Zone base, 1961????-1968???? (BKI 202, p. 3214) ~ took to the forest on orders received March 20, 1968 (BKI 202, p. 3214-3215) ~ worked "in the office responsible for the Zone hospital," pre-1968 (BKI 202, p. 3217) ~ Party Secretary of platoon of 30+ men in Region 20 ('Section 6'). Active in "propagandizing the people in the bases of the Region" (BKI 202, p. 3217) ~ after Lon Nol coup, "put in charge of troops, formed as an army" (BKI 202, p. 3217) ~ "126th regiment active in Region 25, on the Tonle Bassac, from Prek Eng right down [to the]126th" (BKI 202, p. 3218) ~ rejected by the Center when 1st Division (a.k.a. Front Committee)was reassigned to the Center; sent back to the Eastern Zone (BKI 202, p. 3218) ~ "took part in activities with Son Sen" (BKI 202, p. 3218) ~ spent 3 months in Phnom Penh after liberation, after which he was sent back to Eastern Zone (BKI 202, p. 3219) ~ fought with 126th Regiment in "liberation of Neak Leung," April 1, 1975 (BKI 202, p. 3219) ~ arrived at Independence Monument at 9 am, 17 April 1975l (BKI 202, p. 3219) ~ attended meeting at Borei Keila, Phnom Penh, on 20 May 1975 at which the plan for reordering the country was handed down from the Center (BKI 202, p. 3222) ~ "knew in detail only about the military" components of the general principles for DK (BKI 202, p. 3225) ~ in conflict with Southwest Zone (Secretary Mok)since 1973 (BKI 202, p. 3228-3229) ~ attended meeting at Wat Taung at Suong (January 1978)where Pol Pot spoke about the need for every Khmer to kill 30 Vietnamese in order to take back 'Kampuchea Krom'. Meeting also attended by Son Sen, So Phim, and Ke Pauk (BKI 202, p. 3234-3235) ~ received and obeyed orders from the Center ("from Pol Pot personally")to attack Vietnam, 30 September, 1977 (BKI 202, p. 3237) ~ "knew clearly that the principles [of the Center]were not good" after April, 1975 (BKI 202, p. 3240) ~ met Pol Pot in 1962, '63; escorted him and others (Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary)to the regional meeting place of annual Center Congress from Phnom Penh (BKI 202, p. 3244-3245) ~ technical courier, responsible for guiding visitors from other zones to the base location and back to Phnom Penh after 2 or 3 months, 1962-3 (BKI 202, p. 3245) ~ didn't know Pol Pot was "Brother No. 1" at that time, 1962-3 (BKI 202, p. 3245-3246) ~ confined his Eastern Zone troops to Region 25 -- never again to cross boundary into Southwest Zone, late 1973 (BKI 202, p. 3229) ~ "liberated" Neak Leung from the east and the west April 1, 1975 (BKI 202, p. 3219) ~ "Heng Samrin's division was accused of opening up the way for the Vietnamese to come in" in 1978 (BKI 205, p. 3283) ~ "left Phnom Penh in June 1975, for Prey Veng City. In early 1976 I went to command the 4th Division along Highway 7, at Krek... The 4th Division's command base was at Krek" (BKI 203, p. 3301) ~ "received a telegram from the Center, from the commander of my division at Krek, to postpone the festival of the Party's anniversary" in 1976 (BKI 203, p. 3308) ~ Received orders to attack Vietnam, on September 30, 1977, from the Eastern Zone (from both So Phim and Ke Pauk)(BKI 203, p. 3310) ~ Sent 4th Division, 65th, 67th, 68th Regiments to attack the border (BKI 203, p. 3310) ~ Withdrawn by So Phim from the 4th Division on May 18, 1978; went to Suong, and received order to go stay in Prey Veng to be responsible for the Zone military command (BKI 203, p. 3312)

led open rebellion against Pol Pot in the Eastern Zone, 25 May 1978 (BKI 202, p. 3235) ~ claims to have killed "very many of [Pol Pot's forces]in Prey Veng, and set fire to many tanks" in mid-1978 (BKI 202, p. 3243) ~ led a group of 3000 people into the jungle (BKI 128 B, p. 179) ~ rebelled against Pol Pot when a "coup" was carried out by the Center against Eastern Zone leadership in May, 1978 (BKI 202, p. 3235) ~ crossed border with 1,000 troops to Vietnam to contact Vietnamese authorities in September, 1978 (BKI 202, p. 3235) ~ claims to have engaged in a "secret struggle" against Pol Pot, 1976-77 (BKI 202, p. 3241) ~ relayed So Phim's order to fight back against Pol Pot directly to military forces, 1978 (BKI 202, p. 3242) ~ commanded fighting against Pol Pot's forces along National Highway 15 in 1978 (BKI 202, p. 3243) ~ Arranged for 300 troops from Srok Srei Santhor, Kampong Cham Province, Eastern Zone, to guard So Phim after he was wounded near Phnom Penh in mid-1978 (BKI 203, p. 3316)

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