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3 Sihanouk Aides Said to Be Myths confidential report late in 1967 ")-1-1 crz, 7a detailing the execution of the 4th Figure Doubted , three men. Doubts have also been raised 'NOY- 55 Mr. Tith said in a recent about the existence of Son Ngoc interview that the report - Minh, a shadowy figure whose prepared by Oum Mannorine, picture is reported to be re- Prince Sihanouk's brother-in- placing Prince Sihanouk's in 3 SIHANOUK AIDES law and then chief of the secur- the Communist-controlled areas ity police—stated that Khieu of northeast Cambodia. Samphan was burned to death Mr. Tith said that he had SAID TO BE MYTHS with acid, while Hou Youn and .never heard of Son Ngoc Minh Hu Nim were crushed by a nor known of anyone who had bulldozer. met him. He said that Son Pnompefih Believes Prince Ngoc Minh was a Vietnamese Peking Charge Reported and not a Cambodian name. Executed Them in '67 The U.N. delegate also said In 1953-54, when the Viet- that he heard a broadcast by minh under Ho Chi Minh in- Peking radio at the time ac- vaded eastern Cambodia dic- Increasing doubts are being cusing Prince Sihanouk of ex- ing the war against the Frain raised whether the three Cain- ecuting the three men. and set up a so-called libera- bodian Communist leaders. who In Mr. Tith's view, the tion government, they also re- Prince Norodom Sihanouk says North Vietnamese have pressed ferred to a Son Ngoc Minh. are directing his forces in Cam- Prince Sihanouk into using the At that time the Vietminh names of the three men be- said that he was a brother of bodia are alive, or whether cause there are no other well- Son Ngoc Thant, a Cambodian they were executed.: by Prince known Cambodian Communists nationalist hero in the World Sihanouk in 1967. • who can serve as a front. War II and an opponent of The dispute has assumed American intelligence analysts I Prince Sihanouk. But Son Ngoc , great importance for Cambod- have long had serious reserva-I Thant denied the report. ians because Prince Sihanouk tions about the existence of they three ministers. They say -that has repeatedly asserted that they had reports of the execu- these three' men, and not Viet- tions of the three in 1967 and namese Communists are direct- , that no one is known to have -ing the fight against the Gov- seen them since. ernment of Premier Lon Nob, "Unless we get some inde- who ousted Prince Sihanouk as pendent confirmation that they are still alive, it is pretty hard :Head of State last March. to believe that they are still According to diplomatic and around," an American special- :intelligence sources the three ist in Cambodian affairs said. amen, Hou Youn, Hu Mim and A French leftist, Charles 'Khieu Samphan, have not been Mayer, who was once a 'close seen since they were arrested adviser to Prince Sihanouk and friend of the three men, things by Prince Sihanouk's police in that Hou Youn and Khieu Sam- 1967 for participating in an phan are probably dead, though uprising by the Khmer Rouge, he is less sure about Hu Nim. the Cambodian Communist `organization . Some Doubt Reports The Lon Nol Government ap- In •a recent interview in Paris pears so certain that the three after his return from Pnom- are dead that earlier this week penh, he said that he had been it did not bother to try them told of Khieu Samphan's arrest in absentia for treason, as it in 1967 by the man's brother. did the other members of Mr. Mayer thought it unlikely Prince Sihanouk's recently es- that the men would be allowed tablished government in exile. to live once arrested. 3 Named as Ministers Some sources familiar with Cambodia, however, are skepti- On May 3 when he estab- cal of the reports 'of that th lished his government in Pe- three were executed. They note king, Prince Sihanouk listed that the Cambodian Govern- Bou Youn as interior minister, itent has not produced any of- Hu Nim as information minis- ficial record of the executions. ter, and Khieu Samphan as de- Before their disappearance in fense minister. The next week 1967 the three were known as he announced that the three leftist deputies in the National men were in Cambodia, direct- Assembly who favored strong ing his "patriotic forces." policies •of economic national- But the Pnomperth Govern- ization and friendship with ment, believing that the three forth Vietnam and Communist men are dead, feels that Prince China. Hou Youn was born in Sihanouk and the North Viet-, 1930, Hu Nim in 1932, and iiamese are simply using their' Khieu Samphan in 1931. names to cover up North Viet- namese aggression. The recent doubts about the' three men have come from a variety of sources. The Cambodian delegate at the United Nations, Kim Tith, a former Premier and Defense Minister, says that he read a .
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