Promoting Accountability Pich Som

Pich Som

Chheun

m

Disappeared

K08401

KCI0284 20030613, Kang Ta Ning 5 village, Kang Ta Ning sub-district, Kang Meas district, Kampong Cham province.Interviewed by Long Dany. Notes: Pich Som disappeared.Interviewed with his cousin called Hun Sokhom.

Age in KR file: - 45 years old Notes: Year of the

03070204, Kampong Cham, Kang Meas, Kang Ta Ning, P

1970????

Volunteer.

Military Medical Staff in Division 920 in Mondul Kiri province

Medical Staff.

"105" Mondul Kiri province

Suong,Nol.

Pich Som, alias Chheun, male, disappeared. Interviewed with his 38-year-old cousin Hun Sokhom; Som៌s father was Pich Et and his mother was Khun Phan. Som was born in Kang Ta Ning 4 village, Kang Ta Ning sub-district, Kang Meas district, Kampong Cham province. Som has no siblings because he was the only one in the family. When he was a child, no one knew which grade he was. It was when there was a coup to depose King Sihanouk that Som dropped out of school and came to help his parents in rice field. It was in 1970 that Som volunteered to serve as the KR soldiers through Ton. When he first joined the revolution, it was learned that he was a medical staff. He was then ordered by Angkar to the front line, but no one knew to which battlefield he was sent. In 1977, Som visited his home village, and he gave some medicines to his siblings. Next morning, Som returned to Phnom Penh. It was since that time that Som has been disappeared until now. According to his biography, Som joined the revolution in 1970 as a soldier in Zone No. 41. And, it was in 1975 that he was in division 920 in Mondul Kiri province. While living with traitors, his truck was continuously breaking down. And, Sokhom, during the Khmer Rouge Regime from 1975 to 1979, was in the child center in Kang Ta Ning village. Sokhom was at that time assigned to study Khmer Literature for one hour per day besides walking to collect animal៌s waste and carrying earth.

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