European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Faly Magazine Alth Pran whose survival of Khmer Rouge work Camps in Cambodia was the basis for the movie the kitting Fields posing last year with his wife Meoyun ser ditto just after he was sworn in As a . Citizen. Killing Fields survivors seeking justic by  United press International a in Chorn and dish Pran have -, i massacre of in Occil cambodian and  Tell about into a they want to know Why Iasi Graild has nol risen up As it did again to War Criminate alter world War ii to punish those responsible Chorn Piwin and other survivors of the Amix Xian Hilling Fields have appealed to the United nations for  of now deposed Khmer Rouge loaders who ordered the execution 01 millions of people i time a Inree loaf icing of Leno they also have Sun Ltd re to Preo dont  and Oetlor Heads of state seeking Uslice Avo arc asking you to respond and take  and diplomatic action a chains the Khmer act be Tif Cit vol first by seeking a  Fiorin the International court of Justice i hat in i Lurn Blo crime and Geal harm of genocide was  against the people of Cambodia and second Iho United Stales should Call upon the competent organs of the drilled nil Loris to take such actions As would securely product die n occur enc of genocide in  when China backed Khmer Rouge troops captured it Nom penh on Panl 1 7, 1975, loader pot pol ordered Irio nation Pic used which meant the eradication of Western influence phenom penh and Oiler cities  to evacuated forcing even the sick and elderly to an Uncertain future in Rural areas. Years Laler the world discovered that possibly 2 million cambodians died Between april 1975 and he end of 1978. Survivors say the figure is closer to 3 million dead from execution starvation and disease in 1978 the Khmer Rouge was  by invading vietnamese troops which have since a l1ed their own Puppel government. Pran s escape was depicted in the Academy award winning movie the killing Fields in which he was portrayed by compatriot Haing Ngor Ptan is Row a photographer for Ifie new York times Chorn now a student at Brown University was 8 years old when Khmer Rouge troops Cape Rod phenom penh. He came to the United stale in 1983, one of 200  orphan g Aclo pled by am scans in an interview Chron talked of the misery he endured for three years in Wai Fik a Ponsart execution censer in Balta hang province. He said there were goo orphans in wat Quik Temple no one who was sent to Wal  Ever got  Hac Iid they were All Killi d Musiol the Lime inert Weie 200 people Al o Lime then they a would be Ernst ind out and a new �00 would come killing happened j very . Tri the morn my i he evening every Day Sorn Wiinie. Hoy would kill people right in front of the Chik Jien on or All the children watched. They Wurf ditto c enl re to i to  wanted to provide an a .nrnpv,1 to the children " even if Gono Cido Chirgo reach uni internal Ionn court of Justice in the a Taglio. It k int Hely there would he turn Crri Lype finals Uch i i those org red t y Iho allies in 1915 to try Guinnan War Crinan Lri Allol the accused Khz nor a Rucj j leaders dose shall Alivo Are free Ard beyond Inch of any Zerjal authorities. The  court of Justice cannot order their arrest  i end them Ojail. The most the  could do in review the ase and if it determines Masr killings did occur it can Issue an advisory opinion co Clemn no he kit Lqis. Australian Ben Kiernan who  me cambodian massacre 01 Columbia University s Center Lor thes Kidy of human i Lils said Iho worst killings were near the horde with vice Nim. Where he said 100,000 died in six months survivors Tolj him the Khmer Rouge Lara Olti soldiers of former  backed regimes Mellec duals religious people Rind ethnic minorities. David Hawk head of Ilie cambodian documentation commission in Mew York who has visited Cambodia several times said the Khmer to uric at first escaped Justice because ensuing governments focused Allon Tionson the Lar inc and caring for refugees. In april Hawk s commission supported by the Pran Chorn and older cambodian survivors petitioned Reagan and 30 Olter governments to bring the Case before the International court. Hawk said pol pot. Lormor foreign minister Long sary and tha wok a troop commander who carried out pol pol s orders should be tried immediately. All three Are believed a Lull in Cambodia. Pol pot is reportedly ill and has been relieved As commander of some 30,000 troops fighting 4he vietnamese inside Cambodia. Other members of the Small Khmer sough Poh Truro Are o tie proc ruled Loo Hul their whereabouts Are nol known or oven in they arc Kylill alive. The Khmer Rouge is now part of a three party coalition go Vermont in exile headed by cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk which is trying to end the vietnamese occupation the exiled go eminent is Reco need by the United nations As a Rebull to Vietnam Haslun Colon also supports the Sihanouk coalition but has condemned the killings. Some in diplomats believe that an outright diplomatic attack on the Khmer Rouge will weaken Iho coalition and bolster Vietnam s position a scenario Noll Raed by Western governments such double Standard has allowed the Khmer Rouge to maintain heir political presence in he Ace of condemnation. The Ovici backed vietnamese leaders say they did the Virold a service by ousting pol pol and want their Puppel regime  sunday May 24, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 13