Sek Saing

Male

Alive

Present age:59 years old

1975????

Sek Saing, male, 59 years old and lives in Tuol Pongro village, Tomnop Dach village, Trapeang Prasat district, Oddar Meanchey province. Saing៌s wife is Kuy Rit. Saing has two daughters and one son. Saing is a clerk of Tomnop Dach commune. Saing was born in Lvea village, Svay Rumpea commune, Kampong Leng district, Kampong Chhnang province. Saing៌s father is Sek Chay and his mother Sok Seap. Saing has three brothers and four sisters. Saing is third in his family. After the KR gained power in 1975, Saing was assigned to work in a mobile brigade unit in Thlov. At that time, Saing worked in rice field, carry earth; and ditch canal. In 1978, Saing was selected by the KR to serve as a soldier and he was sent to Cambodia-Vietnam border in Memot district of Kampong Cham province. Saing was in Division 603. Vin and Nhan were chief and deputy of the division. Vin៌s wife is Ho who is [Ta] Mok៌s daughter. Saing was in Battalion 63. Vann was a chief of the Battalion. When the Vietnamese arrived in Cambodia in 1979, Saing crossed from east to west banks of Mekong River and he walked to Kampong Thom province. The soldiers were in the forest almost one year. In 1980 Saing climbed up Dangrek Mountain at Tonle Ropeou. It was called the KR military base [1001]. There were three divisions include Division 801, Division 417; and Division 920 at the base. Son Sen was the highest leader of the base. When the Vietnamese took over Cambodia-Thailand border 1984/85, the KR took their families to live in O-trav refugee camp in Choam Sla of Thailand territory. In 1990, Saing and his family went down to live at Preah Pralay and then Tomnop Dach communes.

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