Khmer Rouge Messenger and Doctor Each Provide Insight into the Democratic Kampuchea Period

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

Former Khmer Rouge messenger Phan Van alias Kamphan took the stand in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) when the Case 002/1 trial hearing continued on Monday, December 11, 2012. In often-terse exchanges with the prosecution in which he frequently denied any recollection of the facts in question, Mr. Van testified about issues including the authority structure of autonomous Sector 105 — of which his father, Ta Lang, had for a time been secretary — as well as political education and telegram procedure and contents.

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