19 Jul 2001

Report on Khmer Rouge Crimes
War Crimes Research Office, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington D.C., USA
Supplied note: "A new report on the war crimes of the Khmer Rouge [Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) - ed.] leadership, based on evidence recently discovered in Cambodia, has just been issued [Jul 2001 - ed.]. As the report states, while others have researched the Khmer Rouge regime, 'this is the first comprehensive legal analysis of available evidence against specific individuals [the report identifies seven high ranking CPK officials - ed.] for international crimes.' The principal author of the report is the well-known expert on Cambodia Steve Heder. A second co-author, Brian Tittemore, provided the legal analysis for the report."
From the report's executive summary: "Previously-unpublished evidence concerning the planning and conduct of the CPK's execution policies confirm that these policies were devised at the highest levels of the Communist Party and were implemented through a coordinated chain of command. The policies targeted members of three groups: individuals associated with the former Khmer Republic regime; non-Communist members of the Cambodian population; and Party members, or 'cadre,' within the CPK suspected of being traitors.
In the case of CPK cadre, the policies were generally carried out through a system of arrests, interrogations, and subsequent executions, with some interrogations conducted through torture; former Khmer Republic officials and non-Communists were generally executed without any prior interrogation."
URL http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/humright/wcrimes/khmerrouge.html
Link reported by: Shawn McHale (mchale@gwu.edu)
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