Mr. THANG Phal
Mr. THANG Phal, of Prey Veaeng district, estimates he was 24 years old at the beginning of the Democratic Kampuchea regime. He came before the court to recall his subjugation to the Khmer Rouge – that he was labelled as the son of a capitalist and was forced into labor for the duration of the regime. Mr. Thang also elaborated a criterion that was used to determine the fate of children belonging to mixed ethnicity families. The children would be arrested and would disappear if the mother was Vietnamese, but if only the father was Vietnamese and the mother Khmer, the children would be spared. Mr. Thang did note, however, that none of his testimony can be substantiated from first-hand knowledge. Rather, this information was conveyed through anecdotes and rumors among his fellow villagers. Concluding his testimony, Mr. THANG Phal confirmed that he had heard of gunfire and artillery shelling as the Vietnamese army began to encroach upon Cambodian territory in 1979.
- Witness acronym :
2-TCW-848
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- Cases : Case 002, Case 002/02,
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