Civil Parties Offer Detailed Testimony on Suffering During Evacuation Phases

  • by Doreen Chen, Senior Consultant, Destination Justice, and LLM, Columbia Law School
  • — 5 Dec, 2012

It was a long hearing day in the Case 002/1 trial at Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, with two civil parties providing lengthy and detailed testimony on conditions during the evacuation of Phnom Penh and life in the aftermath of the evacuations. Civil party Pech Srey Phal vividly outlined the sojourn of her family and one occasion where she and other “April 17” people were “tempered” by the Khmer Rouge by being abandoned on top of a mountain and left to fend for themselves for several months. Civil party Kim Vandy offered insight, in particular, into Khmer Rouge persecution of former soldiers and sailors of the Lon Nol regime…

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