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| Ong Thong Hoeung |
Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
09 August 2012
PHNOM PENH – Some 1,500 intellectuals from abroad perished under the
Khmer Rouge, having moved back to the country at the request of the
regime only to die or be killed, a witness told the UN-backed tribunal
Wednesday.
Ong Thong Hoeung, 67, an economics student
who left France for Cambodia in 1976, said only about 200 intellectuals
who heeded the call for return survived.
“Some of them living in France sold houses, left their children and
wives, expecting to help rebuild Cambodia,” he said. “I believed the
Khmer Rouge.”
He was sent to the Boeung Trabek prison camp in Phnom Penh with other intellectuals, where many died.
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