002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 men, women and children were held at Wat Tlork,2843 one witness with regular access to the detention facility stated that the detention centre near the pagoda held essentially men.2844 654. Some prisoners were first brought to the office in Tlork Village for interrogation.2845 One witness observed security officers “walking people whose arms were tied toward the security office, with a security person riding a bicycle and hitting the prisoners with a whip”.2846 Later, they were led on foot from the office to the detention centre near Tlork Pagoda, and were sometimes beaten along the way.2847 In other cases, they were taken directly to the detention centre.2848 655. The detention centre near the pagoda was surrounded by barbed wire, and security personnel guarded the three wooden prison buildings.2849 Strict discipline was imposed.2850 There is evidence that some prisoners were shackled or had their hands tied behind their backs, and prisoners categorised as “serious” offenders were not allowed to work outside the prison compound.2851 The former prisoner states that all but the youngest children were shackled upon arrival in the detention facility and in the evenings.2852 656. The former prisoner adds that there was not enough food,2853 and another witness observes that the prisoners were in a weakened state and were pale.2854 The only medicine available was home-made and ineffective.2855 The prisoners were made to work whilst in detention. “Light” offenders, including children,2856 were made to work outside the detention centre, under guard, including dragging fishing nets, tending to beasts, collecting buffalo manure and pulling carts to repair dykes; they were worked harder than non-prisoners and had wooden shackles on both legs.2857 One witness saw beatings of prisoners who worked outside the compound, because they did not work well.2858 657. In the absence of any CPK documents relating to Wat Tlork, it is difficult to estimate the total number of prisoners held there between 1975 and 1978. The detention centre could hold two to three hundred prisoners at any one time2859 and one witness who observed the daily activities over the years in question, confirms that prisoners were brought in on foot “two or three times a day, with a total of five to six persons being arrested”.2860 Interrogation 658. A number of witnesses refer to detainees being brought for interrogation at the office in Tlork Village, though none of them say they were present during interrogations.2861 One witness states that those interrogated were leg-shackled and that they “heard screams 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. 165