002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 503. Some prisoners recall being forced to work inside the prison compound performing a variety of labour.2186 Those who worked were given more food than those who remained shackled in the detention buildings. Those who worked on the rice fields were not shackled, but were under guard.2187 Some of those who worked outside returned at night to be shackled in the main detention buildings.2188 504. Two witnesses recall the rape of detainees by cadres at Kraing Ta Chan.2189 A former detainee states that a particular guard often raped and killed prisoners. Sometimes this witness would find the victims naked with ammunition inserted into their genitals.2190 A former guard denies there were ever any cases of rape at Kraing Ta Chan, saying that if there had been, both the victim and the perpetrator would have been killed for committing immoral conduct.2191 The former district youth chairman states he was ordered by the zone or sector to investigate the alleged rape of a woman by CPK cadres at the site.2192 505. Six witnesses were released from Kraing Ta Chan during its operation.2193 One states that after 29 days of detention, he was personally released by Ta Mok.2194 Two former prison guards state that very few people were ever released.2195 Interrogation 506. Seven former detainees recall being interrogated at Kraing Ta Chan.2196 Some were interrogated within hours of arriving at the site.2197 Interrogations were conducted every day.2198 Prisoners were accused of being enemies and were asked to identify their leaders.2199 One former detainee recalls being asked where he was from, whether he was American or Yuon CIA and which rank he held during the Lon Nol era.2200 Another was accused of sexual immorality.2201 Others remembered being asked why there was not enough food in the cooperatives, or about simple things such as conflicts while driving carts.2202 At one point, it appears that people were being questioned about their links to Prum San, leader of the Front in the forest.2203 During the interrogation, a handwritten record of the prisoners’ confessions would be taken and later typed up.2204 507. Detainees were sometimes seriously mistreated during interrogation. The CPK used the language “hot” and “cold” to describe the different methods employed when questioning a prisoner. Hot meant beating and other physical methods whilst cold meant pleading, trickery, ruses and coaxing. Cadre learned these techniques from the sector and district.2205 District 105 documents show this language being used by the subdistrict when reporting to the Party about people they had interrogated.2206 Similarly, Kit, in a letter to [REDACTED] 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. 131