Some were spared the long march. Cabinet minister and generals who failed to escape did not survive the ‘liberation’ long enough to join the exodus. They were summoned to appear in front of the Information Ministry, and it is presumed that those who did – they included Lon Non and Long Boret – were killed on the same day, without even a sham trial. Reports I have never been able to confirm said the slaughter of Lon Nol’s men, and perhaps their families, took place behind the ministry at the Cercle Sportif, the club of the Cambodian and French elite, between the tennis courts and the swimming pool.