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Victim Participation Chhum Yan
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Record No
លេខឯកសារ
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VPA-KT0025 | |
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Name
ឈ្មោះ
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Chhum Yan
ឈុំ យ៉ាន
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Gender
ភេទ
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Male
ភេទ: ប្រុស
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Date Of Birth
ថ្ងៃ-ខែ-ឆ្នាំកំណើត
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19480613 | |
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Age
អាយុ
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59 | |
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Nationality
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Khmer
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Ethnicity
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Khmer
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Birth Place
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Vollyeav village, Damreislap commune, Kampong Svay district, Kampong Thom province
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Occupation
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the second [commune] council
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Current Address
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Yollyeav village, Damreislap commune, Kampong Svay district, Kampong Thom province
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Mode Participation
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Complainant
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Request Protective Measures
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No;
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Prefer form of Reparation
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Stupa
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Main Crime Location
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Being forced to enlist as a Khmer Rouge soldier In 1973, a village chief called upon me to attend a meeting with other villagers in the commune. During this time, approximately one hundred men there were supposed to enlist as soldiers. The base Khmer Rouge leaders said, “Be awake in order to struggle with the Yuon enemy, don’t let them take our land. All the Khmer children stand up!� Female leaders at the base, village and commune were established as responsible for farming and looking after the wives and children of those who served as soldiers. I myself did not want to enlist as a soldier at all, especially because I did not want to be away from my wife and one-year-old child. However, I could not escape [the draft.] A village chief named Koy Hem (deceased) accused me of being a CIA or KGB agent and threatened me. He said that I would be killed if I did not enlist as a soldier. I learned military tactics in Taing Krasao village, commune (?), probably Bakan district (I am not certain). Because Lon Nol’s secret agents were following us, we changed training places often. A month and a half after this training, I went directly to the front lines in order to learn about real fighting from soldiers. Between 1973 and 1975, I fought with Lon Nol soldiers in Kampong Chhnang. Later on, in 1976, I went to Kampong Cham, even further away from my family. A squad chief had twelve members in his unit and a platoon chief thirty-six members. There were five companies, totaling five hundred people. A zone chief named Pauk ordered all people (division chief, brigade chief, till platoon chief) to do farming in Prey Chhor district, Kampong Cham province, located somewhere near Phnom Pros Phnom Srey mountain. Then [we] had to move from village to village for a year, helping villagers transplant their rice seedlings in cooperatives. A year later, in 1977, Pauk, a zone chief, ordered division chief Van, who came from the southwest, to take charge of the central zone. He also transferred five hundred soldiers to the east zone, along the Khmer-Vietnamese border. While there, I fought against Vietnamese soldiers at Krek and Memot. As we were outnumbered, we lost the fight and most of our soldiers lost their lives. We were unable to bring the dead back. At the time, afraid of death and concerned about my wife and child, I had no desire to serve as a soldier whose bones would be left in another district. Sometimes, when tanks chased and tried to crush us, the division or platoon chief summoned us to go to the battlefield. Those who dared to confront them would be killed. Fortunately, as I was older than other people in my group, Van, a division chief, selected me to work in the economic section, transporting rice and other food supplies for soldiers fighting on the front lines. This is why I did not participate in the bloodiest fights with Vietnamese soldiers. Working in the economic section did not exhaust me at all; I was responsible for transporting food supplies and equipment to Khmer Rouge soldiers. When the Vietnamese invaded our country, I escaped to find my wife and child. Ten days [later], the Vietnamese arrived. When the Vietnamese soldiers came, my left leg was wounded in a mine blast. I was unable to walk and twice went to stay in Chrey Chanva hospital. This was why I could defect home. While serving as a soldier in 1976, I saw approximately one hundred dead bodies, people who came from Siem Reap, lying in a well at the airport next to Phnom Pros Phnom Srey mountain. I think that the local authorities, consisting of guards and soldiers, had probably killed all these people in one day. People were put into one or two trucks and taken to be killed once a week. I twice saw the corpses of people killed by guards and also heard people crying and asking for mercy (not to be killed) at around one or two a.m. I do not know who the guards were, nor was I aware of the real reasons that these people were killed. They probably had committed wrongdoings and been accused of being Yuon, CIA, or KGB agents. I know that the district guards were responsible for the killings, but I do not know their names because this place was far away from mine. Since the place where this incident occurred was a banned area, I snuck to take a look around the location when the guards went to eat their meals. |
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Date Completion of Form
កាលបរិច្ឆេទនៃការបំពេញបែបបទ
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20080327 | |
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Petitioner
អ្នកដាក់ញ្ញាត់
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No; | |
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