KR Bank Official Quizzed Over Disappearances
On his second day of questioning by prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, the deputy director of the foreign commerce bank during the Pol Pot regime, Sar Kim Lomouth, said he feared for his safety following the purging of several superiors at the Ministry of Commerce. When asked whether he knew what had happened to Vorn Vet, head of the commerce committee, or comrades Choun and Nem, two other ministry officials—all three of whom were sent to the notorious S-21 prison—Mr. Lomouth replied that he had no idea and had never asked anyone about their fate. “At the commerce committee and my workplace I didn’t see Vorn Vet working in that office, so I don’t know his whereabouts during the later period of [the] regime…. I didn’t hear anything about him,” Mr. Lomouth said. Besides Mr. Vet’s absence, he added that an interpreter from the Ministry of Commerce also disappeared. …
