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| |  | | Ta Mok | | | context : | Cambodia  | | judgement place : | Cambodia | | status : | Died before end of trial | | particulars : | Died on July 21, 2006 while awaiting trial before the Extraordinary Chambers for the crimes committed by Khmer rouge in Cambodia | | position : | Member of the Central Committee of the Cambodian Communist Party |
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| | | | Former Buddhist monk and student at the Pali High School in Phnom Penh, Chhit Choeun, alias Ta Mok, was actively involved in the 1940’s in the resistance movements against the French and the Japanese. Later, he joined the Cambodian Communist Party. His activity was concentrated in the Southwest Zone, and he was nominated as a member of the Central Committee of the Cambodian Communist Party in 1963.
In 1968, he became Secretary of the Southwest Zone, a post that provided the platform from which he became a member of the Standing and Military Committees of the Central Committee. These positions afforded Ta Mok the de jure and de facto authority to direct the conduct of CPK subordinates, in particular those in the Southwest Zone.
Ta Mok, at that time, held important military functions in the Khmer Rouge Movement (he became Commander in Chief of the Army in 1977). As Party Secretary for the Southwest Zone, he orchestrated major purges: in the Angkor Chey district and is said to have had 30’000 people massacred. Ta Mok’s own appointees then progressively began to replace those senior party members who had been removed for collusion with Viet-Nam. In this way the party cadres of the South West became the spear head of the revolution. After the partial defeat of the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese invasion in December 1978, Ta Mok became the Supreme Military Commander of the remnants of the Khmer Rouge and commanded the guerrillas from his fiefdom of Along Veng in the north. In the spring of 1998, at a final gathering the remaining units of the Khmer Rouge obliged him to seek safety in the dense forests which separate Cambodia from Thailand.
He was arrested on 6 March 1999 close to the Cambodian border, just inside Thai territory, and afterwards transferred by helicopter to a prison in Phnom Penh. Up to the time of his arrest, and for several decades before, “Uncle Mok” had maintained a network of business contacts and commercial transactions with Thailand. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | also known as : | | | Chhit Choeun | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 15.02.2008 |
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