002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 any other misbehaviour.2293 Execution methods included beating prisoners to death, killing them with axes, tying them together and drowning them (including entire families) or throwing them into a well.2294 Furthermore, prisoners were often disembowelled to serve as a warning to others.2295 Witnesses recall seeing human livers and gallbladders being dried on a large tree in the Koh Kyang security centre compound.2296 According to one witness, soldiers mixed gallbladders with wine and drank it and also cooked and ate livers.2297 Children were executed if they tried to escape or had secretly come to visit their parents.2298 532. Several witnesses state that during their detention they saw graves in the detention centre grounds, under coconut and mango trees.2299 Witnesses saw freshly dug pits, where bodies had been buried in order to serve as fertilizer and noticed the stench of decay emanating from the ground.2300 One witness, who was detained in 1977, was asked to excavate a mass grave in order to transfer the corpses to a new mass grave as there was a fear that the fluid from the corpses might have flowed into the well nearby.2301 He was also, along with other prisoners, required to dig three to four graves in advance of executions, each grave containing two executed prisoners.2302 533. One witness, who lived close to Koh Kyang security centre and went to the prison compound in 1979 to release the prisoners and find his relatives, states that the graves had been disturbed by people looking for gold and that skulls and human remains were found alongside the graves.2303 The witness recalls that the Pagoda Committee collected the remains of more than 200 people and placed them at Ou Chrov Pagoda. He estimates that in total 1,000 prisoners had been killed at Koh Kyang security centre.2304 *** 534. Thirty six (36) civil parties were declared admissible with regards to Koh Kyang Security Center,2305 since the alleged crimes described in the application were considered as being more likely than not to be true, pursuant to Internal Rule 23 bis (4). These civil parties have provided sufficient elements tending to establish prima facie personal harm as a direct consequence of the crimes committed at Koh Kyang Security Center. Prey Damrei Srot Security Centre2306 ņĕĀБũ₤ĕʼnЊ₤НŠ аŪĮřе ũВŪ₤Оij 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. 137