Ta Mok's brother-in-law describes work in tribunal testimony

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Igor Kossov

Sann Lorn, brother-in-law of infamous Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok, yesterday told the Khmer Rouge tribunal about how he delivered truckloads of people from communes in Takeo’s Tram Kak district into the arms of waiting militia members. Lorn spent four days ferrying people from six Tram Kak communes to a gathering point in the south of Ang Tasom commune. Commune chiefs would gather the people to be transported, and a militia commander accompanied by about 10 men would take the people off Lorn’s hands when he arrived. He said he never saw them again.

“The vehicle . . . could load 50 or 60 people at one time,” he said. “It took me two trips for the communes that had many people, but for the small numbers of people in some communes, I only took one trip.” Lorn maintained he didn’t know who the people were, but at one point appeared to acknowledge that they were Vietnamese.

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