Trial day 7

Mr. Meas Sokha, alias Thlang, 54,from Tram Kok district. The witness said he worked in a mobile children’s unit until he was sent to Kraing Ta Chan prison together with a number of his arrested family members in June 1976. He testified about the living and working conditions in the Tram Kak Cooperatives and Kraing Ta Chan security centre in Takeo Province. He was questioned about the interrogations and executions that he stated to have witnessed at the detention center

Ms. Oum Suphany, 68, a Civil Party from Phnom Penh, explained that when she was evacuated from Phnom Penh, she went to live with her future parents-in law in Trapeang Thum Tboung commune in Tram Kok District. She is the author of two books about her experience under the Khmer Rouge written based on secret diary she kept during the Khmer Rouge regime. She was questioned about the living conditions and her experience in the Tram Kok cooperatives, and about her claim of being forcibly married.