Kung Sim

 

 

 

          A Kampot woman was transferred to Phnom Penh in mid-1978 was assigned first to K2, which she recalled as being located in a market area near a pair of lion statues and where she met Ieng Thirith.   At first, she cleaned up the area, where there was a warehouse full of containers for rubbing ointment.   After a couple of months, she and others went to the Social Action Ministry for reassignment.  Some were sent to Kh-1, others to the 6 January Hospital.  Ieng Thirith was in charge of the ministry, she recalled.  She identified Peuan as the chairman of the ministry office, adding that he was Ieng Thirith's son-in-law, being married to Thirith's daughter, Minh.  Minh was the chairwoman of Po-1, otherwise known as the 6 January Hospital.  By the time she was assigned to Po-1, this source said, it was filling up with battlefield wounded from Svay Rieng. Her immediate superiors were named Vanna and Lon.  She never saw Ieng Thirith at the hospital.  She was aware of no instances of arrests or disappearances.[1]

 

 

[1] Kung Sim, interviewed aged 45 in Angkor Chey district, Kampot province on 12 July 2004.