Nhaem Siem

 

 

 

           A man from Takaev who was assigned to the 17 April Hospital (the former Russian Hospital) recalled that he was accused of being CIA for supposedly having left scissors inside a military patient upon whom an abdominal operation had been performed.  The arrest was effected by female cadre named Seng.   The accused was loaded in a closed vehicle and taken to a place where he was cuffed, shackled, beaten and starved.  He was interrogated, his responses being recorded, but he denied being CIA. Other prisoners were being taken away for execution, but one of the cadre, a woman named Heuan or Kheuan from Kah Thom, helped him escape.  She seemed to fall in love with him and undid his restraints, so he and the other five in his cell were able to flee, including three women seamstresses.[1]

 

 

[1] Nhaem Siem, interviewed aged 48 and aged 74, in Treang district, Takaev province on 13 May 2004.