002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 first ten days of their detention.2274 Every week, prisoners, especially women and children, died from starvation.2275 Light offenders were given more food than serious offenders.2276 Prisoners were made to perform labour in the prison compound and its surroundings, such as digging pits, farming or watering plants.2277 There was no medical treatment at Koh Kyang security centre and many prisoners died of disease or overwork.2278 Interrogation 528. Interrogations were typically conducted outside of the prison or in a separate interrogation house.2279 Prisoners were asked for their biographies and for the reason for their arrests and were accused of being members of the CIA or of supporting the Lon Nol regime.2280 Former prisoners recall that their confessions during interrogation were taken down in writing.2281 One witness recalls: “Once in three, four days they took the documents to the upper and when the documents returned back, they transferred the people to be killed at night, ten, twenty at a time”.2282 529. Prisoners were regularly subjected to serious mistreatment including being beaten, covered with plastic sheets and/or bags until suffocation as well as electrocution.2283 As a result of this, prisoners often died during interrogation.2284 One female prisoner states that a man touched her breast and her vagina and stripped off her clothes in order to inspect her body while one soldier was watching.2285 Iron shackles and electric generators were found inside Koh Kyang security centre shortly after the fall of the CPK regime in 1979.2286 Executions 530. Serious offenders who were to be executed would often be killed after two or three days of imprisonment2287 or, as one of the prisoners states, “those who would be executed were immediately taken out”.2288 Other prisoners were taken away, never to be seen again.2289 Some witnesses report that sick prisoners were sent to a “hospital” but that these people never returned their understanding being that they had been killed.2290 CPK cadres who were detained at Koh Kyang security centre included subdistrict chiefs and unit chiefs who had been accused of treason and who would be executed or disappeared. 2291 One witness states that ethnic Vietnamese were also arrested, sent to Koh Kyang security centre, and killed.2292 531. Executions were common at Koh Kyang security centre and CPK cadre would intentionally execute prisoners in front of others in order to deter them from trying to escape or engage 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. 136