Report on Activities and Results of Genocide KR Victims' Tombs Mapping Research in Preah Sihanouk Ville

D119705

Report on Activities and Results of Genocide KR Victims' Tombs Mapping Research in Preah Sihanouk Ville

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Cambodia

February 15, 2000

DC-Cam. No.D119705 4/8/2025

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Mr. YONG Yuthy said that he also knew this problem and had done some. But documents were not guarded. It was a long time, so they were completely lost by governance and people changes. However, he remembered KR's prison, security and killing position:
1) O Trey: Killing place is in Mitapheap district, 5-6km. from Prah Sihanouk city. 2) Durian field: Killing place is in Sting Hav, Preh Sihanouk city. There're 5 or 6 dead in each tomb. He saw people digging the gold by himself in 1979, 1980 and 1981. Besides, as Mr. KANG Saran, he knew there's the big place Kos Khyang. ''From 1979, the liberation day, to 1993, we can not get there, so I do not know it exactly'', He said.
+ Information about KR criminal positions
Lieutenant colonel YIN Bunnat Knew well prison, security and killing places in Kos Khyang because he had been police of Prey Noup district, he just had noved to city police station. He also knew other places such as:
1) Anlong Thom, Okyna Heng, burian field
2) Ra Kraham, KR Security.
Concerning our worry about mine in Kos Khyang, he showed us Preah Sihanouk Ville, especially Kos Khyang, map. ''There's no mine in Kos Khyang, people live everywhere in Kos Khyang. But there're mines in Veal Rameas Ngab, the place where many victims were killed, we can not go there, There're mines also in Andong Tik position. Previously, KR protected it as water resource by using mines and arms. But there places are oversea.
Captain MENG Chantha was prisoner in 18 district, Takeo Province. He was shackled till he gangrened. Fortunately, when he was walking he met Chinese expert transporting ice. The expert gave him to tubes of Penicilyne to cure it. It left trance in present.
We interviewed Sinoeun before other 10 witnesses, including a school director who was not interviewed, there was no time.
+ Sinoeun told us about the Prisoners who were alive:
1) Mr. Sok, living in Sre-Ambil with his son;
2) Mr. IN Din, Prey Noup district;
3) Mr. Kam Yo, Andong Tmor commune, Prey Noup district,
4) Mr. PAK Samdin, Prey Noup district,
5) Teacher SEM Toul Tatin School,
6) Teacher KHEM, Preah Sihanouk High School,
7) Mr. LENG Yan, O Chtao commune,
8) Teacher CHAO Sokhom, Phnom Penh, and the test he did not remember their names.
+ Activities at Koh Khyang prison position
They sent him immediately into the prison after arriving. He was shackled and tied with iron chain. His hands were tied backwards at thumbs, wrists and elbows. The prison was big and was the first interrogation place. He emphasized that the prisoner had slept on the ground, urinated and eaten rice soup without untying. The prisoners had to eat quickly because they would take the bowl back after having given the rice soup to all the prisoners. He added that the prisoners had slept on their excrement and their urine covered by the sand. The prisoners were very miserable. The worm eating excrement crawled on the body of each prisoner. They interrogated the prisoners every 7 days. In each interrogation, the prisoner were beaten unconscious, sometimes dead. Each day there was 5 or 6 prisoners dying by illness, famine and interrogation. The prisoners were tied in range, if one of whom rise to urinate, they must rise together. ''It was very miserable, I did not hope survive''. Sineurn had seen 2 prisoners interrogated before him.

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