This page is designed to collect what is known or remembered about the administration of the Kampot and Takeo regions from 1975-79.
Region 35 (Kampot)
|
Name |
Position |
Comment |
|
Khe Muth |
“Secretary” of Kompong Som and DK navy chief so must have been powerful in the region |
Mok’s son-in-law |
|
Chong |
1977 – promoted to secretary of region |
Mok’s son |
|
Kang Chap |
"Ran the region" with a military assistant for security affairs"1 |
District level
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Name |
Position |
Comment |
|
Chat Chaom |
Kampot district chief (until 1977) |
Drinker and flashed a pistol. Probably responsible for murder of large numbers of Lon Nol ex-soldiers thrown from Bokor Mountain.* |
|
Mon |
Replaced Chaom (executed) in 1977 |
Arrived from hill country of Chhouk with cadres, intensified the repression, wiped out a ‘rebellious’ chalat (200 people)* |
|
Suos |
K Trach district chief |
Reported to have killed parents of some of his own soldiers in 1977. Implemented repression against old and new people* |
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District # |
Name |
No of subdistricts** |
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77 |
Kampong Trach |
9 |
|
72 |
Chhouk |
10 |
|
78 |
Dang Tung |
9 |
|
75 |
Touk Meas |
7 |
|
unknown |
Prey Noup |
unknown |
Subdistrict personnel
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Name |
Position |
Comment |
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Region 13 (Takeo)
Regional level personnel
|
Name |
Position |
Comment |
|
Khom (f) |
Deputy Secretary from 1976-77 (died) |
Mok’s daughter |
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Zone level labour units (10,000 people)
1st Mobile Division -
2nd Mobile Division – run by Ren, Mok’s son-in-law, who was also a military commander. Divided into mobile ‘regiments’ of 1,500 workers and smaller groups. Wat least one ‘regiment’ worked in Kho Andeth district (108). One estimate was that 90% of the workers did not survive DK.2
District level
|
District # |
Name |
No of subdistricts ** |
|
109 |
Kirivong |
11 |
|
105 |
Tram Kak (Moks birthplace, named one of only three model districts (srok kumruu) in DK). District Committee (1975-79) listed as Chim, San, Phy and An** |
10 |
|
108 |
Koh Andeth |
7 |
|
107 |
Treang |
16 |
|
106 |
Angkor Chey (now in Kampot province) |
6 |
|
Name |
Position |
Comment |
|
San |
Tram Kak secretary 1977-78 |
Mok’s brother-in-law |
|
Tith3 |
Chief of D 109 (Kirivong) – replaced chief judged too soft on new people |
Also Mok’s brother-in-law |
|
Khom |
Tram Kak secretary from 1973-76 |
Moks daughter |
|
Soeun |
Secretary Treang 1977 |
Mok's son-in-law |
Subdistrict personnel
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Name |
Position |
Comment |
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* information taken from Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79, 2nd Ed, Silkworm, Bangkok, 2002 pp 168 - 204
** information taken from Meng-Try Ea, The Chain of Terror: The Khmer Rouge Southwest Zone Security System, Documentation Centre of Cambodia, 2005, p 26.
1. Kiernan, ibid, p 192
2. ibid p 187
3. Tith was still alive in 2010 according to ex Khmer Rouge sources interviewed by the Document Centre, http://www.d.dccam.org/Projects/Promoting/pdf/PA_Report_Takeo_Kirivong.pdf
