Phom

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Phom

BKI 86, pp. 1054, 1055, 1062 / BKI 57 B, p. 1029 / BKI 55, pp. 1097, 1099-1100 / BKI 39, pp. 810-822

Phum ;

Male

;notes: "in his 30's. Looked young" (BKI 86, p. 1062) ~ 194????? ;notes: "aged in 30's in 1976" (BKI

Yung ;type of rel.: W ; (BKI 55, p. 1097)

from the Technical College, Phnom Penh (BKI 86, p. 1054) ~ Khmer-Soviet Technical School (BKI 57 B, p. 1029) ~ Khmer-Soviet School, Phnom Penh ;notes: until 1968 or 1969, but did not finish (BKI 7 A, B, p. 1106)

1.2 ;notes: student (BKI 57 B, p. 1029) ~ 1.2 ;notes: student (BKI 39, p. 811)

political (BKI 86, p. 1054) ~ administrative/political (BKI 57 B, p. 1029) ~ political (BKI 55, p. 1097) ~ political (BKI 39, p. 811) ~ administrative (BKI 7 A, B, p. 1106)

veteran struggler (BKI 39, p. 811)

Central Committee secretary (lekhathicar)kanak mocchim ;notes: "He was secretary (lethathicar)kanak mocchim. Not Secretary (lekha)of the Central Committee" (BKI 86, p. 1055) ~ "controlled 40 offices around Phnom Penh", 1978???? (BKI 57 B, p. 1029) ~ member of the Party Center ;notes: "Phom controlled politics in the Center office, a member of the Party Center" (BKI 57 B, p. 1029) ~ party theoretician ;notes: "responsible for political education of the returnees" (BKI 55, p. 1097) ~ teacher of foreign returnees, Soviet Institute, Phnom Penh ;notes: "we (foreign returnees)were taken to the Khmer-Soviet Institute...in meetings, we were divided into groups of 12+...we were usually addressed by Khmer Rouge military, veteran strugglers, like Phum" (BKI 39, pp. 810-811) ~ protean munti (office chief)of the Foreign Ministry's office in charge of returnees (munti Krosuong Karboreteh)housed at the Khmer-Soviet School, Phnom Penh, 1976???? (BKI 7 A, B, p. 1106)

Sin, committee supervisor (BKI 55, p. 1097)

foreign returnees ;code: 1.56, killed ;notes: "The ones who killed us, were arrested. Names: Savan, who was protean (chief)Boeng Trabek, also Pang, Phum, a network" (BKI 39, p. 819)

;code: 4.0, arrested, 1977???? (BKI 86, p. 1054) ~ ;code: 4.0, arrested, 1978???? (BKI 57 B, p. 1029) ~ CPK ;code: 4.0, arrested ;notes: "I saw Ieng Sary come to contact us (surviving foreign returnees)directly...The ones who'd killed us, were arrested.

Phom was liked by the returnees (BKI 86, p. 1055) ~ "In general, Phom was a good man" (BKI 86, p. 1054) ~ joined the revolution in 1963 (BKI 57 B, p. 1029) ~ addressed a large meeting of returnees in mid-December, 1976 ;notes: "The Khmer people were said to be the strongest in the world and motivated by great anger. For 1977, the target of three tons per hectare was set on a national scale" (BKI 55, p. 1097) ~ "In March 1977, a woman named Yung arrived in O Melou with a newborn baby. She was the wife of Phum, the high ranking political cadre who had spoken to the returnees once in December. We knew Phum had fallen from favor... In mid-1977 the monthly party magazine Revolutionary Flags, which Phum as party theoretician was responsible for, did not appear for three months in succession" (BKI 55, p. 1099-1100) ~ taught the "study sessions" attended by foreign returnees in June, 1976, Khmer-Soviet Institute in Phnom Penh ;notes: "He was like our teacher, he was saying what he'd been told by the Party in his own study sessions. Said the Vietnamese were enemies, because Vietnam had attacked Koh Tang and Koh Wai after liberation... he'd represented Angkar in these sessions... Phum spoke every fortnight or month, irregularly" (BKI 39, p. 811) ~ attended meeting, October or November 1976, of foreign returnees, expressed anti-foreign sentiment with the exception of Albania ;notes: "Phum made a statement around this time that Teng Hsao-ping was a revisionist and that only Albania was a true friend of Kampuchea, having, unlike China, advised refusal of negotiations (with the Lon Nol regime)in 1972" (BKI 39, p. 821) ~ "Phum asked [Informant 39](a foreign returnee)to help him work on some agricultural equipment for a particular task and Chhano expected to hear from him again but never did" (BKI 39, p. 822) ~ stopped studying to "run into the the jungle" (join the revolution)(BKI 39, p. 811) ~ joined the maquis in 1967 or 1968 (BKI 7 A, B, p. 1106)

Pang [Chhim Samuk](BKI 57 B, p. 1029) ~ Peh Bun Tong (BKI 57 B, p. 1029)

;entered: 1977???? (BKI 86, p. 1054) ~ ;entered: 1978???? (BKI 57 B, p. 1029)

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