Genocide Mapping Project 1999: Kampong Thom province

D119620

Genocide Mapping Project 1999: Kampong Thom province

English

Cambodia

August 10 , 1999

DC-Cam, 1999

Kampong Thom Province

DC-Cam/Documentation D119620

Cambodia

Computer-Typing (Tx) 10 pages

1. Sandan District 2. Baray District.

+ Sandan District
The Sandan District mass grave mapping trip was not particularly productive. We were unable to get to the district in order to deploy the GPS for site data collection. We had problems stemming from (a) not having enough time; and logistical difficulties, including (b) the lack of appropriate transportation, as well as (c) long distances. The district is about eighty-five kilometers from the provincial town by road and two hundred kilometers by water. However, our team did have one success, in that we met and interviewed a close friend of Kang Khek Leu, aka Duch, who is now being detained by the government on charges of genocide. That interview was written up separately, and is presented as another section of the 1999 Mapping Reports.
+ Baray District
The second Documentation Center mission to Trass village, Balaing commune, Baray District on August 10-11, 1999, was very successful. Our team interviewed four witnesses who provided detailed information. We employed two tape recorders to document our interviews with the witnesses, and photographed the prisons and execution sites, the killing pits, the bones of victims, and the four witnesses. We met with all the witnesses we had planned to interview, and the witnesses were patient in describing the activities of Khmer Rouge security guards between 1975 and 1979. This success was due to good planning by the team. We also guided the French film crew led by Director Adrian Maben, assisting them to create a motion picture film record of the Cambodian genocide as well as the documentation activities of the DC-Cam.

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