002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 a guard coming into his cell and beating his knees with a hammer for no apparent reason.2081 The food was insufficient and many people died from starvation.2082 In addition, prisoners also died from disease and from the injuries they sustained from beatings.2083 481. Prisoners, including children, were forced to work.2084 Guards and former prisoners recall that when serious offence prisoners went outside to work they were chained in pairs by their feet.2085 A former prisoner recalls farming whilst shackled and having to wrap the chain around his waist.2086 Light prisoners would work without being restrained.2087 Labour included planting vegetables, rice farming, carrying water, breaking up tree stumps and minding cattle.2088 A former guard recalls seeing prisoners being beaten with whips and clubs as they were escorted to work.2089 Former prisoners attest to seeing guards beating prisoners to death for minor infractions.2090 Sick prisoners who could still work were treated with medicine, whereas those who could not were neglected and sometimes died.2091 482. Two former cadres recall that sometime in 1978 the Deputy Chairman of Sang, Meng, was imprisoned himself for being “immoral” with a female prisoner.2092 Two former detainees heard from others that a female prisoner had been raped by her interrogators, who were themselves subsequently detained.2093 A civil party’s nephew states that he eyewitnessed the rape of her sister at Sang.2094 Interrogation 483. Three witnesses and two civil parties were interrogated at Sang. 2095 Only one was seriously mistreated during interrogations.2096 Two former cadres admit to participating in or observing interrogations.2097 One admits witnessing prisoners being seriously mistreated.2098 He recalls that prisoners were asked about matters of immorality and whether they were Lon Nol soldiers, CIA, or KGB agents. If prisoners did not admit to being enemies they would be hit with a rattan cane or suffocated with a plastic bag until they lost consciousness.2099 During an interrogation, a guard would record the prisoner’s confession in writing before taking it to another cadre to type up.2100 484. Sang’s former typist confirms that he typed up confessions which usually outlined a prisoner’s sympathies toward the Lon Nol regime, capitalism, feudalism, the CIA or the KGB. Once such a confession was typed, it was handed to Mong who would sign it.2101 A former guard who worked as Mong’s messenger recalls that once a file on a prisoner had been finalised, he would be asked to deliver an envelope to a particular prison, cooperative or mobile unit. He believed that the purpose was to inform the recipient of those people in 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. 124