DC-Cam's Mapping Report in 1999 (Boeng Trabek School Re-education Camp in Phnom Penh during the DK's period, 1975-1979)

D119699

DC-Cam's Mapping Report in 1999 (Boeng Trabek School Re-education Camp in Phnom Penh during the DK's period, 1975-1979)

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Cambodia

DC-Cam D119699 4/24/2025

Phnom Penh

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Cambodia

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The Office of Consciousness and work education [Boeng Trabek High School]
Mr. Lun Chheng Kai told us that when he came to sweep and clean the school for the first time in 1979. he saw between ten and twenty pairs of shackles scattered here and there on the grass in front of his present office in the southern-most building on the campus. The school campus consists of two large classroom buildings facing each other; in between the two building, there is a spacious playground measuring between 300 and 400 meters, with a one-story shack located in the middle.
During the Khmer Rouge regime, it was true that Ms. Vanna came to this school. Approximately one hundred intellectuals from abroads, both male and female, lived at the school under the control of the Khmer Rouge. Professor Vanna said that all the people who lived there are porridge mixed with corn, and that they could occasionally fish for food. The Boeng Trabek High School _ 120102 (Address and name of the school is the same at the present)
After the liberation day, January 7, 1979, Professor Vanna went to visit Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, and there she saw the names of the people who had lived with or near her. Those names added up to almost one hundred people. Therefore, she came to the conclusion that the people who had protected at Boeng Trabek Campus were sent to nowhere else but Tuol Sleng, to be imprisoned. At 3pm on August 24, 1999, Mr. Sin Khin went to interview Mr. Tep Vutha at the council of Ministers. Mr. Tep Vutha lives at House Number 55, street Number 111, Sangkat O Russei, Khan Prampei Makara, During the Khmer Rouge regime. after he returned to Cambodia from Romania.
Mr. Vutha said that there were many more survivors, but he could not remember all their names. Thus his recollections are consistent with Ms. Hem Vanna's report. The survivors mentioned above clearly understood that this was a kind of torture, Mr. Vutha told us. If someone dared to protest or argue, they would be killed.
Mr. Vutha also noted that new batches of overseas intellectuals arrived at Boeng Trabek mostly during the years 1975, 1976, and 1977. The year 1978 saw very few people come to Boeng Trabek. Mr. Vutha told us that the top Khmer Rouge cadre worked under Comrade Ieng Sary at the building, which today houses the Council of Ministers. He believes that there were a few intellectuals from abroad working with Comrade Ieng Sary, but he can not remember their names.

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