Promoting Accountability Kuy Phang

Kuy Phang

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Alive

PHI002220130516,Koh Ker village,Srayang commune,Koulen district, Preah Vihear province.Interviewed by Long Dany. Note: Interviewed with Kuy Phang,male, 49 year-old,No Biography.

[Prensent age 49 years old]

13040504Kdat village, Phnom Tbeng commune, Koulen

Volunteer.

Children Unit center at Prah Vihear province.

Children Unit.

Region103,Prah Vihear Province.

Ta Hang was Chief of Region.

Kuy Pang, male, 53 years old, lives in Rumchek village Srayang commune, Koulen district, Preah Vihear province. Pang៌s wife៌s name is Put Savy. Pang is the village៌s chief. Pang was born in Kdat village, Phnom Tbeng commune, Sangkum Thmei district, Preah Vihear province. Pang៌s father៌s name is Kuy Pil and his mother៌s is Chin Sen. He has five brothers and two sisters and is second in his family. He studied to grade 3 when he was young. Soon after the coup d៌etat in 1970, the KR arrived in his village and made propaganda. At that time, Ta Sruoch was the chief of the KR stationed in his village. In 1973, most of villagers joined the KR, and they collected their property to put in communal place. However, the KR still allowed each family to eat. After April 1975 the KR took many new people (17 Mesa people) to live in the village and all of the people were forced to eat in the communal hall and work together in a cooperative. Pang was assigned to a child unit in the village. He and the others children were ordered to work in rice fields and look after cows and buffaloes. The office of Preah Vihear Region (103) was in Rovieng district. Ta Hang was the chief of the region. After the KR collapsed in 1979, Pang lived with his family in Kdat village. However, the village was unstable because of the KR came to fight against the Vietnamese in the village. The villagers always fled from the village and found a safe place. In 1991, Pang married Put Savy in Koh Ker village and moved to live with his wife in the village. There, Pang joined the KR. He was a soldier in the KR 612 division. Ta Hoeun and Van Kosal were the leaders of the Division. Pang was promoted to be a commander of battalion 71 within regiment 18, Division 612 a few years later. His unit was ordered to station itself in the Koh Ker area. Pang said that sometimes his unit fired against a division of the Cambodian government in the area. Srey Doek was the chief of the division. After the KR integrated with the government in 1999, Phang retired from the military and returned to live in Rumchek village. He is currently the village chief.

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