Persecution of Vietnamese recounted at KRT

Parties continued to explore the alleged existence of a Khmer Rouge policy to target the ethnic Vietnamese as testimony continued in the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Case 002/02 yesterday.

Witness testimonies at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday shed further light on the roll-out of an alleged policy of purging ethnic Vietnamese in Case 002/02 against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan.

Civil party Choeng Yang Chat testified under questioning by Nuon Chea defender Victor Koppe that Khmer Rouge cadres had checked his family’s record book – which stated their Vietnamese heritage – before they were evacuated from their home village to another in Kampong Chhnang where the rest of his family was later executed.

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