002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 601. On 15 June 1977, Northeast Zone Secretary Vy sent a telegram to “Respected Brother,” copied to Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Son Sen, among others, 2606 informing them that “it had been decided that [REDACTED]” a Division 801 cadre,2607 “would find a way secretly to take away the contemptible undercovers at the rubber and cotton plantations and in the mobile units”. Consequently, the rubber plantation union workers were arrested and sent to Au Kanseng on the order of the Chairman of the Northeast Zone Rubber Plantations [REDACTED]2608 also concurrently on the Zone Committee.2609 Workers were arrested for a number of reasons including immorality in daily life, speaking in defence of an arrested pregnant wife,2610 being critical of the Party2611 or were accused of using “techniques of the feudalist class, not farmer’s techniques”2612. In the 15 June 1977 telegram Northeast Zone Secretary Vy added that “once responses have been obtained from all of them and clearlytape recorded, the quest is made for a decision for the highest level for all of them”.2613 602. Prisoners arrested from the cooperatives were sent by their chief along with reports of the faults attributed to them.2614 They were mostly arrested for minor offences such as stealing food.2615 603. Former detainees of Au Kanseng further state that between 1002616 and 2502617 prisoners from the Jarai minority had been arrested. 604. Prisoners were often transported by truck to the prison.2618 While some prisoners remained without cuffs at the moment of their arrest,2619 they were held at gunpoint and led in single file to their rooms.2620 Arrests of the Union workers happened in groups.2621 Detention 605. Some prisoners were shackled either separately or collectively in rows of five to ten on a single steel bar.2622 Civilians, woman and children were neither shackled nor chained2623. Female and male prisoners were detained separately.2624 Most prisoners were taken to go work during the day and then locked in their cells at night with soldiers guarding from the outside2625 while some were kept shackled in their cells permanently.2626 The prisoners worked, under the supervision of guards,2627 performing a variety of activities such as clearing grass, working in the rice paddies, planting and tending food, and building dams and dikes.2628 Periodically, the prisoners would be brought to reeducation meetings which were led by the Chairman who had previously met with Division chief Ta Saroeun.2629 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. 154