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executed at Tuol Po Chrey.517 This policy to target Khmer Republic officials
continued thereafter with executions, arrests and disappearances reported throughout
Cambodia.518
173. Meanwhile, according to the Closing Order, throughout the DK era (17 April
1975 to 6 January 1979), there were widespread killings, torture, rape, physical
violence, forced marriages, forced labour, disappearances, and/or other instances of
inhumane treatment, some of which were carried out on discriminatory grounds.519
During the DK era, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians victimised by the Khmer
Rouge regime sought refuge in Thailand, Vietnam and Laos.520
174. By 2008, the Documentation Center of Cambodia (“DC-Cam”) had identified
an estimated 1.3 million human remains in 390 mass grave sites spread throughout
Cambodia.521 Experts suggest that there is a high probability that those mass grave
sites contain the remains of only a sample of those who died as a result of Khmer
Rouge policies and actions during the DK era: it is likely that many grave sites have
517
Section 12: Tuol Po Chrey, para. 681.
See Section 11: Movement of the Population (Phase Two); Section 14: Joint Criminal Enterprise.
519
Closing Order, paras 302-860 (Concerning allegations of mistreatment and violence at security
centres, execution sites, cooperatives and worksites and treatment of specific groups throughout
Cambodia).
520
Demographic Expert Report: Khmer Rouge Victims in Cambodia, April 1975-January 1979: A
Critical Assessment of Major Estimates, E3/2413, 30 September 2009, p. 19, ERN (En) 00385262; T.
11 April 2013 (François PONCHAUD), pp. 57-58; Article by P. Heuveline: ‘Between One and Three
Million’: Towards the Demographic Reconstruction of a Decade of Cambodian History (1970-79),
E3/1799, 1998, p. 60, ERN (En) 00096735; French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Circular, Subject:
Cambodian News, E3/2675, 1 December 1978, p. 12, ERN (En) 00752075.
521
DC-Cam Document: Burial, E3/2763, 18 February 2008 (16 sites in Banteay Meanchey each with
the remains of between 50 and 25,000 people; 19 sites in Battambang with the remains of between 30
and 20,000 people; 75 sites in Kampong Cham with the remains of between 10 and 32,690; 40 sites in
Kampong Chhnang with the remains of between 10 and 150,000 people; 24 sites in Kampong Speu
with the remains of between 10 and more than 30,000; 17 sites in Kampong Thom with the remains of
between 1 and 150,000 people; 14 sites in Kampot with the remains of between 40 and 32,047 people;
29 sites in Kandal with the remains of between 10 and 35,027 people; 10 sites in Kratie with the
remains of between 50 and 7,000 people; 1 site in Mondulkiri with the remains of about 200 people; 4
sites in Phnom Penh with the remains of between 10 and 15,000 people; 36 sites in Prey Veng with the
remains of between 30 and more than 17,200 people; 17 sites in Pursat with the remains of between
100 and 15,000 people; 3 sites in Ratanakiri with the remains of between 40 and more than 1,000
people; 24 sites in Siem Reap with the remains of between 12 and 36,000 people; 8 sites in Kampong
Som (Sihanoukville) with the remains of between 100 and 1,500 people; 4 sites in Stung Treng, one
site containing the remains of 1,000 people; 18 sites in Svay Rieng with the remains of between 40 and
30,000 people; 31 in Takeo with the remains of between 1 and 40,000 people); Demographic Expert
Report: Khmer Rouge Victims in Cambodia, April 1975-January 1979: A Critical Assessment of Major
Estimates, E3/2413, 30 September 2009, p. 7, ERN (En) 00385250; See also, DC-Cam Document:
Mapping the Killing Fields of Cambodia, 1997: khet Kampong Thom, E3/2648, 1997.
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