002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 regarding prisoners who had newly arrived, ordered him to: “interrogate harshly and thoroughly”.2207 508. Of those former detainees who recall being interrogated at Kraing Ta Chan, two claim they were seriously mistreated during their interrogation.2208 Others state that although they were interrogated, they were never beaten.2209 Former Kraing Ta Chan prisoners and guards witnessed a variety of methods being used to mistreat prisoners during interrogation, including using plastic bags to suffocate, beatings with whips and clubs, the use of pincers to pull noses and earlobes, dousing with acid, pouring water into victims, hanging from the feet, and hanging using ropes tied around the neck.2210 Two former detainees recall seeing prisoners die from injuries suffered during interrogation.2211 Furthermore, another former detainee recalls that he would have to dispose of the bodies of those who had died from injuries sustained during interrogation, insufficient food, and illness.2212 509. A former detainee remembers being interrogated for three days after he arrived at Kraing Ta Chan. He said “During those interrogations they asked us who the traitor leaders were, and when we said that we did not know, we did not know, they beat our thighs and backbones at the shoulders with a rattan stick, and they tied our arms behind us to a small wooden post. Then when we said we did not know, we did not know, they used a plastic cloth and tightly wrapped our heads, faces and ears. That made me unable to breathe and I passed out. Next they took off the plastic cloth and once again [interrogated] looking for the leaders. Then they charged that if no one is your leader, then you must be the leader yourself. They said they would keep me for three more days and then they might interrogate again”.2213 A number of former detainees and cadres remember hearing screams coming from the interrogation room.2214 Disappearances and Executions 510. Orders to kill were sent from the sector secretary to the district secretary who would inform the chairman of Kraing Ta Chan. These orders were handwritten on confessions which had originally been sent from Kraing Ta Chan to the district secretary.2215 511. Some witnesses say that prisoners were taken away during the night2216 in trucks,2217 in effect disappearing.2218 Guards told them that they were being returned to the cooperatives.2219 Their fate was hidden from others by the playing of a loudspeaker that drowned out their screams.2220 One former prisoner was told that he could not reveal that people were being executed to the other prisoners.2221 Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, National Road 4, Choam Chao, Dangkao Phnom Penh Mailing address: P.O. Box 71, Phnom Penh; Tel: +855(0)23 218914 Fax: +855(0) 23 218941. 132