DC-Cam: Mapping the killing Fields of Cambodia, 1999

D119616

DC-Cam: Mapping the killing Fields of Cambodia, 1999

English

Cambodia

1999

DC-Cam 1999

Kampong Thom Province

DC-Cam/ Documentation/D119616

Cambodia

Computer-Typing (Tx) 27 pages

1. Interviews with important informants to Wat Baray Security Office, Prison and Execution Site
2. Victims and Perpetrators at Baray Choan Dek.
3. Interviews with Friend of Kang Keck lev Know as Duch, Chief of S-21 prison neul to double chuch the interview at SH's suggestions.

During the meeting with Mr. Leam Sarun, he described some of the cruelties committed by the Khmer Rouge in Sandan District during their reign. He said that in the Pol Pot regime, it was quiet and fairly secure in this District. There was not much Killing for most of the regime. Late in 1978 and into early 1979, Killings committed by the Khmer Rouge noticeably increased. Mr. Sarun suggested that if we wanted to know more, we should ask Mr. Chim Vuthy, who lived in Sandan District under the Khmer Rouge regime. According to Mr. Chim Vuthy, more than one hundred people were detained at the Prey Kanleng security office. The Khmer Rouge took people from the security office to be killed nearby. They killed people and buried them in pits near the security office. After the Khmer Rouge regeim collapsed, the District authorities excavated pits near Prey Kanleng security office in order to recover the remains, taking the bones he was Chief of Sandan District for about one year (July 1983-September 1984). Mr. Men Ly said five truckloads of victims were brought to Wat Baray Choan Dek once or twice each month. When this place become too crowded, some prisoners would be sent away to another place. Mr. Men Ly was Kept in prison from 1974 to 1979. He says that he knew four other victims who were imprisoned with him. They all wish to be informants is case a court needs them. He estimated that the number of victims killed at Wat Baray Choan Dek was between 1,000 and 2,000, with the victims dispatched at execution sites located east of the temple. In 1979, Mr. Men was made a Village Chief, and he organized the people to carry out exhumations of the mass graves in 1980. The bones and skulls were stored in a stupa on the grounds of the the Wat. Mr. He Hai, who has long lived in trass Village, Balaing commune, Baray District, Kampong Thom province. He is a very important informants because he had clear knowledge of the number of victims killed by the Khmer Rouge guards at Wat Baray Choan Dek in late 1978 and early 1979. On December 15, 1974, Mr. He Hai was detained at the Tadet security prison, Cheang Deang commune, Kampong Thom province. Baray District om August 10-11, 1999, was very successful. Our team interviewed four informants who provided detailed information. We employed two tape recorders to document our interviews with the informants, and photographed the prisons and execution sites., the killing pits, the bones of victims, and the four informants. We met with all the informants we had planned to interview, and the informants were patient in describing the activities of Khmer Rouge security guards between 1975 and 1979.

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