

“Those who ate people’s organs, like liver and heart, their eyeballs went so red and they were very cruel and aggressive.” There was a story spread that Khmer Rouge cadre…ate humans’ inside organs because it made them heartless and gave them courage to kill others,” she said. “Everybody in the prison saw it, and it looked so scary to see fresh human liver and heart. Him, who was jailed after her husband-a French teacher who disappeared after being taken away for “reeducation”-said local cadre consumed human body parts openly. Many of these stories have arisen recently during the second phase of Case 002 at the Khmer Rouge tribunal. Him is among the survivors of the Khmer Rouge who have told of cannibalism in Tram Kak district during the regime. Let’s eat and drink it with alcohol,’” she said. Upon his appearance, he raised up his hand with a human liver and heart and shouted, ‘Here’s the liver and heart from that woman. “I saw a Khmer Rouge cadre who walked her out come back into the detention cell. Him said, piercing screams could be heard through the walls of her cell. Him said.Īfter the woman was marched onto the grounds of the prison, in Takeo province’s Tram Kak district, Ms. The Khmer Rouge cadre in charge at the prison brought her out of the detention cell,” Ms. “One day, there was a pregnant woman detained at the prison with me and she felt a stomach pain as she was due to deliver a baby. Following her arrest and imprisonment in Kraing Ta Chan security center by the Khmer Rouge, Ouk Him bore witness to a scene unfathomable to most.
