ABSTRACT
Battambang, one of Cambodia’s largest, most populous, fertile, and traditionally rebellious provinces, was an especially violent region throughout the UNTAC period. Only Kompong Cham and Siem Reap provinces rivaled Battambang for the frequency and brutality of the three most common forms of violent human rights abuse to afflict Cambodian life. These can be summarized as: 1
abuses related to the resumed armed struggle of the National Army of Democratic Kampuchea (NADK), the armed wing of the Party of Democratic Kampuchea (PDK), or “Khmer Rouge”;
election-related violations: namely, State of Cambodia (SOC) violence and intimidation aimed at winning the May 1993 elections and NADK violence and intimidation aimed at preventing their taking place;
arbitrary violence against the population by those, on any side, with authority or weapons. 2
