002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 1977 or 1978, it appears that other cadres took control of Sang.2057 The last chairman, Nev, was in charge of Sang for only a few months before the fall of the CPK regime in January 1979.2058 Two former Sang cadres recall that conditions improved after Nev took over. One goes as far as to say that under Nev, no new prisoners arrived, prisoners were not shackled, and no one was killed.2059 Arrest and Detention 479. Seven witnesses and two civil parties who were detained at Sang were interviewed.2060 Men, women, and children were all imprisoned there.2061 At any one time there would be approximately 100 to 300 people in detention2062 and prisoners would arrive and leave on a regular basis.2063 However, it appears that under Mong, no-one was released to go back home.2064 Those arrested appear to have come mainly from Kandal Steung district.2065 Often whole families were brought in together.2066 They were a mixture of base people, including CPK cadres, and new people, including former Khmer Republic soldiers.2067 A former guard who participated in interrogations recalls that the majority of prisoners were Khmer Republic soldiers. He attests that if someone was accused of being a Lon Nol soldier, CPK cadre would arrest him and bring in the entire family, including children.2068 People were arrested for being “enemies” which meant anything from actual or perceived sympathies towards the Khmer Republic regime, the Khmer Sar, feudalism, capitalism, the CIA or the KGB, not following orders, breaking ploughs or stealing food.2069 Sometimes people were arrested because others who had been interrogated at Sang Security Cnetre had implicated them.2070 480. Group leaders, village chiefs, and Subdistrict chairmen all brought prisoners to Sang.2071 Often the prisoners were not told the truth about where they were being taken.2072 People arrived by truck, bicycle, ox-cart or on foot. After arriving, they were ordered at gunpoint to get on the ground where their hands were tied. They were then escorted to their cells.2073 It appears that prisoners were put into different categories, as either light or serious prisoners, which determined the conditions of their detention and where they could work.2074 One former guard (and later light prisoner) states that those in the most serious category had their legs shackled and were ultimately executed, whereas light prisoners could work outside.2075 Those who had committed more serious offences slept in rows of twenty with one leg locked to a long rod or log.2076 These prisoners urinated, defecated and slept in the same place.2077 However, not everyone was shackled, in particular women.2078 Men and women were kept separately in different buildings.2079 They slept naked as the prison chief was afraid they could use their clothing to hang themselves.2080 One former prisoner recalls 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. 123