11 July 2007
Michael Vickery
In number 15, March 2001, of the Documentation Center journal, Searching for the Truth [in Khmer],The Center's director, Chhang Youk wrote, page 1, that the Center had records showing at least 156 cases of rape by Khmer Rouge cadres, and that those cadres had not been punished by "elimination", but that on the contrary many of the women, after being raped, had been eliminated on the grounds that they had served the CIA, the KGB, or were 'enemies'.
The documents to which Chhang Youk referred have been compiled in English summary form by Tieng Sopheak Vichea in a volume entitled "Sexual Abuse Cases Under the Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge) Regime", Phnom Penh, May 1999.
This volume contains summaries of 156 files, all but 3 apparently dossiers of prison confessions, and of those all but 4 confessions by Democratic Kampuchea personnel; and in the dossiers 290 cases of 'sexual offences', as defined by Khmer Rouge morality rules, are listed. In the summaries of each case, except one, there are 'perpetrators' (men) and 'victims' (women). A breakdown of the cases into categories of offences, confessed, alleged, or hearsay, does not support the statement made by Chhang Youk, nor even the title of the volume of English summaries.
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