The following are selected, edited excerpts from a document taken from the
body of a dead Khmer Rouge cadre in Anglong Veng district last month. As with
probably all KR dispatches, it cannot be authenticated. It was given to the post
by General Khann Sovoern. Translations are unofficial.
ALL categories of the civilian personnel of the two-headed and Vietnamese
communist puppet government must be destroyed and cleaned up for the following
reasons:
- Thus far, the vision of our cadres regarding civilian personnel is out of
focus.
- Our cadres live together with these civilian authorities. They eat with
them, they around with them, they go too far, to the point that our cadres are
influenced and some others continue to be affected
- It results in mixing up our political standing, our administrative affairs
and also our activity with that of the enemy. It is a bad influence: it stalls
our guerrilla war, our popular war, our booby traps, our road-cutting efforts.
The enemy civilian authorities pose a tremendous and immediate danger... on a
daily basis. There is confusion and danger for our management, our vision, our
politics, our welfare, our economy. If the destruction and clean-up does not
take place, these enemy civilian personnel will absorb us and then dissolve us
by peaceful means at will.
Whoever, our cadres, most of them, more than
95 per cent, have not yet fully understood the two headed and Vietnamese
communist puppet government. They are still concentrating on only the military
aspect. After a military attack on village or commune is carried out, they stop
and take no further action. This is because our cadres for possess in their
hearts some spirit for reuniting, that is, the rejoining our spirit and that of
the enemy... They still go back and rely solely on the military option. Perhaps
they make some efforts and succeed in rounding up some civilian authorities.
After these authorities promise not to return to their jobs again, they are free
to leave. But these enemies resume their positions again when they get back home
and then come back and hit our heads, cut off our heads again. They come to eat
and drink with our cadres and staff again.
99 (Pol Pot) believes this
matter of the destruction and clean-up is as clear as black and white and
considers it a condition for distinguishing between the cadres of Democratic
Kampuchea (KR) and the cadre of 'them'.
All civilian personnel must be
rounded up and held in a camp with a bamboo and wooden fence or with trees with
thorns with tough security guards....
Ten persons are allowed to have a
daily ration of one tin can of polished rice and two bowls of water.
Slogans should be erected saying: 'If you become simple people, you
live. If you stay as authorities of the Vietnamese and two-headed government,
you will die.' Those people [must] repeat the slogan for three hours in the
morning and two hours in the evening.
Each of them must be interrogated
to obtain his personal biography and other background information.
We
must ask as many people as possible about their personal biographies and
background of activity.
This process is to go on for seven days and seven
nights until their stomachs become thin and they will struggle with thirst. At
this point, they will make up their minds to decide about their lives.
As for the savage ones, it is normal. They are in small numbers. We will
not mess around with these people for too long. We interrogate them for one or
two days. We will get enough documents from them. Then we will deal with them
right away. We do not want any further problem from them.
Important
note: A majority of the cadre have good resolve but have in their hearts a
spirit of alliance. They must educate themselves in carrying out the destruction
and cleaning-up of the enemy's civilian personnel at any price. As for bad
elements, other people, or people with the enemy, there is a small number that
has infiltrated into our staff. Once we strictly implement the guidance, we will
see that it is black and white. Those who implement the guidance are with us and
those who do not are the enemy.
