REPORT BY LON NONE OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE ASPECTS OF OPERATION "TCHENLA 11"

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06739260
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2019
• Case Number: F-2017-01443
• Publication Date: October 8, 1971

OF A SIX-PAGE REPORT PREPARED BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL L 0 N
NOW, COMMANDER OF THE CAMBODIAN ARMY (FANK) THIRD INFANTRY
BRIGADE GROUP, CONCERNING PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE/PACIFICATION
ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED IN CONNECTION WITH OPERATION "TCHEN1 A
II". IT HAS NOT BEEN TRANSLATED IN ITS ENTIRETY DUE TO ITS
LENGTH. HOWEVER p THE MAJOR POINTS ARE SUMMARIZED AND AN
EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO PRESERVE THE TONE OF THE REPORT.
THE TERM "ENEMY" HAS BEEN USED IN THE SUMMARY
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MENTION OF KHMER ROUGE OR KHMER COMMUNIST IN THE REPORT.)
2. ON ORDERS OF MARSHAL L 0 N NOL, A PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
HEADQUARTERS PROCEEDED IMMEDIATELY TO THE AREA OF TCHENLA
It AND ESTABLISHED ITSELF ON 2 SEPTEMBER 1971 IN BARAY. IT
MET AT ONCE WITH THE CLERGY AS WELL AS WITH THE RESPECTABLE
MEMBERS OF THE AREA. THE MAYOR-WAS IMMEDIATELY CHARGED WITH
TAKING A CENSUS OF THE INHABITANTS, PAGODAS CLERGY AND THOSE
WHO HAD BEEN FORCIBLY TAKEN AWAY BY THE ENEMY. LOCAL
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES WERE INVENTORIED. ON-THE--SPOT
INVESTIGATION COLLECTED POPULAR REACTIONS AND TESTIMONIES. THE
HARSH OPPRESSION OF THE ENEMY BECAME IMMEDIATELY APPARENT,
ALONG WITH THE GENERAL UNHAPPINESS OF THE -POPULATION.
THE ENEMY HAD RESTRICTED THE MOVEMENTS OF THE AGED., INFIRM
WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND HAD HELD THEM AS HOSTAGES.
BOTH MARRIED AND UNMARRIED WOMEN HAD .BEEN RECRUITED FOR CARNAL
PURPOSES. THE ARRIVAL OF TCHENLA II WAS A DELIVERANCE FOR
THE POPULATION. THANKS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL ACTION ACTIVITIES,
THE PEOPLE RETURNED TO THEIR HOMES, AND THOSE WHO REMAINED
IN ENEMY HANDS SOUGHT TO ESCAPE.. Al THE TIME OF THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF THE HEADQUARTERS IN BARAY, THE TOWN CONSISTED OF
8 918 INHABITANTS. WITHIN A WEEK THE FIGURE CLIMBED STEADILY.
HILE THE HEADQUARTERS WAS THERE 4,000 ADDITIONAL PERSONS
ARRIVED AND 333 INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD BEEN ENROLLED WITH THE ENEMY
WERE INTERVIEWED BY THE HEADQUARTERS. THE RESULTS OF THESE
INTERVIEWS REVEALED THE INFORMATION CONTAI4ED BELOW.
3. BECAUSE OF MEASURES TAKEN BY THE ,EN.EMY, THE PRACTICE OF
THE BUDDHIST RELIGION WAS IMPOSSIBLE. 'MONKS COULD NO LONGER
CIRCULATE TO OBTAIN FOOD, THE ENEMY INSISTING THAT IF THEY
WISHED TO EAT THEY HAD TO WORK. RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES OF ANY
SORT WERE FORBIDDEN. SALE OF WHITE AND YELLOW CLOTH WAS
STOPPED TO PREVENT THE MONKS FROM MAKING THEIR ROBES.
THOSE WHO OPPOSED THE ENEMY WERE TORTURED OR KILLED. SEVEN
OF 32 PAGODAS WERE COMPLETELY PILLAGED; NINETY SIX MONKS WERE CARRIED
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OFF FROM BARAY AND THEIR FATE IS NOT KNOWN. IF BARAY HAD NOT
BEEN LIBERATED THE BUDDHIST RELIGION WOULD HAVE BEEN EXTINGUISHED.
4. THE ENEMY USED YOUTH AND INTELLECTUALS FOR PROPAGANDA
PURPOSES, AND THEY WERE ENROLLED BY FORCE. THE MOST
INTELLIGENT WERE KILLED. YOUNG GIRLS WERE INCORPORATED
INTO THE "REVOLUTIONARY GIRLS CORPS" AND BECAME GIRLS OF
EASY VIRTUE (FILLES A TOUT FAIRE). MANY WERE HARSHLY
VIOLATED AND THE LEAST.PAOTEST BROUGHT EXECUTION. ABOUT
TWENTY GIRLS FROM BARAY WERE CARRIED OFF BY THE ENEMY.
CHILDREN FROM AGE 6 TO 13 WERE TAKEN FROM THEIR PARENTS AND
SENT TO AN EDUCATION CENTER WHERE THEY WERE
TAUGHT COMMUNIST DOCTRINE. THE CHILDREN RETURNED HOME
HOSTILE TO TRADITIONAL KHMER LIFE, INSULTING MONKS, OLD
PERSONS AND THEIR PARENTS AS USELESS TO SOCIETY.
5. THE GENERAL POPULATION COMPLAINED OF THE CRIMINAL
ACTIONS OF THE ENEMY, MURDERS, BESTIALITIES AND PILLAGES.
INVESTIGATION REVEALED FLAGRANT POLITICAL GENOCIDE: 182 PERSONS
DISAPPEARED, SOME OF WHOM WERE FOUND IN MASS GRAVES. (b)(1)
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COMMENT: THERE THEN FOLLOWS A LISTING BY NAME OF PERSONS
KNOWN TO HAVE DISAPPEARED OR TO HAVE BEEN EXECUTED.)
- 6. THE RESULTS OF THE ACTIVITY OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL
WARFARE/PACIFICATION HEADQUARTERS WERE REMARKABLE. DUE TO
THE EFFORTS OF THOSE FROM THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION COMMIS-
SARIATS FOR WAR VICTIMS AND FOR GENERAL MOBILIZATION, AND YANK
BY 13 SEPTEMBER 2,315 PERSONS HAD RETURNED TO BARAY.
MAKING A POPULATION OF 11,233. AN ADDITIONAL 333 PEOPLE
WHO HAD ENROLLED WITH THE ENEMY RETURNED. A SPONTANEOUS
MARCH OF SEVERAL THOUSAND PEOPLE ARMED WITH CLUBS AND
MACHETES WENT OFF ON 12 SEPTEMBER 1971 TO LIBERATE ADDITIONAL
BLOOD BROTHERS FROM THE CLAWS OF THE ENEMY, AND 304 FAMILIES
AND 48 MONKS WERE FREED ON THIS DAY ALONE. INFORMATION
OF A MILITARY NATURE WAS OBTAINED, THEREBY DESTROYING THE
MILITARY PLANS OF THE ENEMY. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT ON A
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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCALE RESULTED FROM THE EFFORTS. CABLES
FROM AROUND THE WORLD DENOUNCED THE CRIMINAL ACTS OF THE ENEMY.
7. A REFUGEE CENTER WAS ESTABLISHED. SCHOOLS WILL BE
OPENED. POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION COURSES RUN BY THE MINISTRY
OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS .BY POLITICAL ADVISORS AND
PERSONS FROM THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE HEADQUARTERS WILL
BEGIN. COMMENT: " THERE FOLLOWS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF
HELP FROM VARIOUS ORGANS OF THE CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT AND
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