DC-Cam: Mapping the killing Fields of Cambodia, 1998 Site Form:

D119690

DC-Cam: Mapping the killing Fields of Cambodia, 1998
Site Form:

English

Cambodia

August 4, 1998

DC-Cam No. D119690 4/4/2025

Prey Veng Province

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Cambodia

Computer-typing​ (Tx). 55 pages

We believe that our visit to the 4 districts in Prey Veng province was fruitful, which came from hard work on the part of our mapping team. We made it to visit certain sites far away from the district office and even to certain sites in remote areas close to the borders of other provinces and Vietnam. These sites could not be reached before. The villagers and authorities remained strongly cooperative and helpful to our research. We have also found important witnesses who knew clearly about those sites. However, the remains and other evidences were not tangible because they were not properly kept or maintained. Some remains are still in those pits yet exhumed. We have found only the statistics document about various sites, which was provided by the district chief of Sithor Kandal. The time for this research was a pit short-one day for one district or two districts. but our team still gained success.
We wish we had more time to make our research very complete in every aspect. Then the result would be even much better than this. However, in these circumstances, we could not stay very long in those districts. The Khmer Rouge is not a problem any more in this area, but robbery can not be careless of. This is our concern because many villagers are having their crops affected by drought, insects, pests and bad crops. They are strongly affected by food shortage.

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