YOU HUY

 

 

 

Photo Exhibition:

THE VICTIMS OF HISTORY:

VOICE OF THE KHMER ROUGE VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS

 

HENG SINITH with Huy Vannak

 

Documentation Center of Cambodia

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum u October 2002.

 

Name: You Huy aka Him Huy, Male, Age 23 (1977)

Joined the [Khmer Rouge] Revolution: 7 October 1972

Position: Deputy Battalion Security Guard at S-21

Home Village: Por Ban Sub-district, District 18, Region 25, Kandal Province

 

YOU Huy, 48 years old (2002)

 

To tell the truth, I didn't want to work there. I asked Son Sen if I could leave, but he refused. I was the only one who dared to do that; I finally asked because I was scared that I would be killed if I stayed on. I didn't feel good about watching the people die one after another and the prisoners' miserable lives. If the law then had been like the law of today, I wouldn't be working there; I would have returned home to live with my parents.

People still brand me as an S-21 worker. I shouldn't have been one, but Duch and Ho forced me to serve at that prison. I was ordered to do this; if I had refused, they would have killed me. If I am summoned to court, I won't hesitate to provide testimony about what I did in the prison and the reasons I did them.

 
   

 


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