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A young woman who was selected by
the teacher in her local school in Takaev to be sent to Phnom Penh
in early 1978 recalled that whereas the regime in the countryside
was brutal, in the city it was not as bad. She was assigned to the
Social Action Ministry’s Po-1 (6 January) Hospital, where the ration
was hard rice, and there were few shortages. Nevertheless, the
strict prohibitions on contacts between men and women grated, and
violators were executed. She stated never saw anyone disappear
from the hospital, medics and workers there were given warnings to
this effect by the chairman, and accusations of illicit love were
made even when it was not true. . She was afraid that if she made a
mistake, she would be killed, and there were rumours of people being
beaten for being lazy, but she herself was never ill-treated, only
chewed out.
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