CHAPTER NINEAS THE WAR FOR Cambodia continued its rapid, perverted, escalating transformation, so too did Met Nang’s role change, pervert, rise. Nang did not remain with the recruits he’d led into the forest northwest of Kompong Cham. They were turned over to other Krahom cadre for induction, indoctrination and training at the new schools. No longer were recruits sent to Pong Pay Mountain. The cloaked animosity between the Communist allies, and the now total NVA domination of the Northeast provinces, caused the Krahom leadership to close the School of the Cruel and to open smaller, dispersed, less politically oriented schools in the southwest Cardamom Mountains.
The war became more conventional and Nang became a more conventional soldier—a soldier in a small army which continued to shadow
