Children as young as 12 years old were taught to decode telegrams and were posted at military bases and administration offices across the country, a former telegram translator told the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday.

After arriving in Phnom Penh in late 1975, Norng Sophang, Chairman of the telegram translation unit at B-20, was tasked with training children how to read and write telegrams, the English alphabet, and, eventually, how to decode secret messages sent from the party’s upper echelons.

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Source: (The Cambodia Daily)